Campaign Against Antisemitism's video: Jonathan Brent Podcast Against Antisemitism S3 E22

Jonathan Brent is an academic and historian who serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a cultural organisation and place of higher learning with a world-renowned library and archive of 24 million documents whose mission is to preserve, study, share, and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. In this episode, Jonathan reflects on the culture of East European Jewry before and during the Holocaust, the origins of the antisemitic trope “Zionism is racism”, and how Joseph Stalin helped to create a new form of antisemitism. _______________________________________________________________ Video contents: 00:00 - Intro 01:09 - The history of YIVO 06:23 - What is in YIVO’s archive? 09:53 - How can people access the archive? 16:59 - What does the YIVO archive tell us about antisemitism? 22:14 - What were Yizker Birkher? 25:10 - Holocaust denial 29:20 - Jewish identity in the Soviet Union 39:05 - The origins of the trope “Zionism is racism” 45:42 - How can people who are not Jewish help tackle antisemitism? 49:00- Final words _______________________________________________________________ See other episodes of Podcast Against Antisemitism here: https://bit.ly/3GHnxPo Subscribe at antisemitism.org/podcast and send us your feedback to podcast@antisemitism.org. Campaign Against Antisemitism is a volunteer-led, UK-based charity dedicated to countering antisemitism through education and zero-tolerance enforcement of the law. Learn about us at antisemitism.org CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIALS Twitter: https://twitter.com/antisemitism Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/campaignagai... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/campaignaga...