An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism

Title: "An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism" Speakers, Affiliations and Topics: Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler Affiliation: Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, College of Staten Island (CUNY). Topic: "The History and Psychological Roots of Antisemitism Among Feminists, Their Gradual Stalinization and Palestinianization" Speaker: Thyme Siegel Affiliation: Writer and Instructor of Women’s Studies; Topic: "Sisterhood was Powerful and Global: Where Did It Go?" Speaker: Gloria Greenfield Affiliation: President and Founder, Doc Emet Productions Topic: "The Empress's New Clothes" Speaker: Dr. Nora Gold Affiliation: Writer-in-Residence and an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Topic: "Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community" Convener: Jennifer Roskies, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Doctoral candidate, Bar-Ilan University; Research Consultant, ISGAP Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Date: August 25, 2010 Description: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including, the history of antisemitism within the feminist community and how to combat this phenomenon.