A Conversation about Antisemitism in American History

Join Kirsten Fermaglich, Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University, as she discusses the history of antisemitism in the United States with Professor Amy Weiss, the Maurice Greenberg Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, on Feb. 13, at 7 p.m.

Kirsten Fermaglich is a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at Michigan State University. Her most recent book, A Rosenberg By Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (NYU, 2018) was awarded the Saul Viener Book Prize by the American Jewish Historical Society in June 2019. Fermaglich is also the author of American Dreams and Nazi Nightmares: Early Holocaust Consciousness and Liberal America, 1957-1965 (Brandeis University Press, 2006) and the co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (2013), with Lisa Fine. From 2016 through 2021, she was co-editor of the journal, American Jewish History, along with Daniel Soyer and Adam Mendelsohn. She is currently pursuing two research projects: one looks at the history of antisemitism in the federal government, and the other focuses on the migration of Jewish academics to college towns throughout the South and Midwest in the years after World War II.