Antisemitism: Evolution and Escalation

May 2, 2024 at 6:00 pm
Zoom and the Hays Public Library

Antisemitism has a long history, well beyond the 20th century. This session will examine the evolution of antisemitism from religiously motivated antipathy in early modern times to the economic and pseudo-scientific antisemitism of the 19th and 20th centuries, and finally to the politically driven antisemitism of today. This talk will also provide the tools to identify antisemitic tropes and dog whistles that pervade our social media landscape.

Shelly Clien is the Historian and Director of Education at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in Overland Park, KS. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the SS Aufsherinnen in the concentration camp system and the gendered perpetration of the Holocaust.

This program is offered as part of Holocaust in the Heartland – the third annual Hays Holocaust Remembrance and Education Month sponsored by Fort Hays State University, Hays Public Library, Forsyth Library, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences and FHSU Department of History and Philosophy.