Yale University professor Maurice Samuels will speak at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in State Room East of the Indiana Memorial Union.
He is also the Director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.
Samuels’ research focuses on 19th-century France and Jewish Studies. He has written two books, “The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-
Century France” and “Inventing the Israelite: Jewish Fiction in Nineteenth-Century France,” and is currently working on his third book.
His speech is titled “Antisemitism and Philosemitism in France: Emile Zola and the Ambiguities of Universalism.”
It is sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Borns Jewish Studies Program at IU.
— Sydney Murray
Yale professor to discuss French antisemitism
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