Maya Balakirsky Katz, Reclaiming the Forgotten in the History of Antisemitism
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Dr. Marvin C. and Sharon A. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series
Maya Balakirsky Katz (Bar-Ilan University)
Reclaiming the Forgotten in the History of Antisemitism
Lecture 1: An Apology from the Publisher of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The talk recovers a public apology that the second publisher of the text that became popularly known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion wrote to the Jewish people. A close analysis of this 1905 apology sharpens our understanding of the formative history of official statements, retractions, and amendments, which play a definitive role in public discourse today.
Maya Balakirsky Katz is a psychoanalyst and an Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of the books The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010), Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016), and Intersections between Jews and Media (Brill, 2020). Her most recent book Freud, Jung, and Jonah (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores the exposition of religion during the founding years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals.