Pogroms and Prejudice
Brendan McGeever looks at anti-Semitism, from Russian pogroms to the heated debates around anti-Semitism today.
New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-Semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism.
Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-semitism, Carolyn Forch茅 /programmes/m00050d2
New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by 成人论坛 Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio.
Producer: Robyn Read
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