Old Prejudices, New Realities: Italian Jewry and the Changing Faces of Antisemitism

Thank you to Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, for organizing this crucial conference on Italian Jewry and antisemitism, where I showed how, throughout the centuries, the language of antisemitism changes while its core mechanisms remain strikingly stable—collective blame, stereotyping, exclusion, and moral projection