S3 E22: “History never changes” with Jonathan Brent

Jonathan Brent is an academic and historian who serves as the Executive Director and CEO of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, a cultural organisation and place of higher learning with a world-renowned library and archive of 24 million documents whose mission is to preserve, study, share, and perpetuate knowledge of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide.

In this episode, Jonathan reflects on the culture of East European Jewry before and during the Holocaust, the origins of the antisemitic trope “Zionism is racism”, and how Joseph Stalin helped to create a new form of antisemitism.

This episode is the final installment of Season 3 of Podcast Against Antisemitism. We’ll be taking a short break and returning in April for Season 4 with a really exciting line-up of guests. We’d like to thank all of you for listening, and hope that you’re finding our podcast as enjoyable to listen to as we do in producing it.

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