In his 2026 book, Antisemitisms: A History of Jew-Hating, Sander L. Gilman summarizes how the hatred of Jews came to be used as a political cudgel by non-Jews and Jews alike.
Join the Center for Premodern Studies on October 28, at 3:30 pm, for an Exploring Assumptions lecture by Paulo Pachá (History, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).
Vilified for their supposed usury, condemned by church leaders, and expelled by opportunistic rulers—such was the fate not only of medieval Europe’s Jewish communities, but…