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Yale Creates Center on Anti-Semitism
Tuesday September 19, 2006 8:01 PM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale announced the creation Tuesday of the first university-based center in North America dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism.
``Increasingly, Jewish communities around the world feel under threat,'' said Charles Small, director of the new Yale Initiative for Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism. ``I think we need to understand the current manifestation of this disease.''
The center will provide a forum for scholars to research contemporary causes of anti-Semitism and ways to combat it, and will offer courses, conferences and seminars, Small said.
In a report last year, New York-based Human Rights First said racist and anti-Semitic violence was up dramatically in much of Europe.
Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, an independent nonprofit organization. He earned his doctorate of philosophy from Oxford University and has taught at the University of London, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Yale Creates Center on Anti-Semitism
Tuesday September 19, 2006 8:01 PM
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - Yale announced the creation Tuesday of the first university-based center in North America dedicated to the study of anti-Semitism.
``Increasingly, Jewish communities around the world feel under threat,'' said Charles Small, director of the new Yale Initiative for Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism. ``I think we need to understand the current manifestation of this disease.''
The center will provide a forum for scholars to research contemporary causes of anti-Semitism and ways to combat it, and will offer courses, conferences and seminars, Small said.
In a report last year, New York-based Human Rights First said racist and anti-Semitic violence was up dramatically in much of Europe.
Small is the founding director of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, an independent nonprofit organization. He earned his doctorate of philosophy from Oxford University and has taught at the University of London, Ben Gurion University, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University in Jerusalem.