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38:10Now PlayingIs Antizionism a Soviet invention for persecuting Jews?
Dan is joined by Shaul Kelner, professor of Jewish studies and sociology at Vanderbilt University, to examine the rarely-told history of Antizionism. Kelner explains how a framework designed to deny Jewish life under Soviet rule has resurfaced in the West long before October 7 and why many American Jews were unprepared for its scale and intensity.
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Purchase Shaul Kelner’s book, A Cold War ExodusHow Americans Activists Mobilized to Free Soviet Jews
Read Shaul’s article on American Antizionism in the Shalom Hartman Institute's SourcesA Journal of Jewish Ideas
Attend The State of World Jewry Address at the 92nd Street Y
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