Thursday, November 15, 2018 @ 4:30PM
A Specter Haunting Europe: The Myth of Judeo-Bolshevism
For much of the twentieth century, Europe was haunted by a threat of its own imagining: Judeo-Bolshevism. This myth—that Communism was a Jewish plot to destroy the nations of Europe—was a paranoid fantasy. And yet fears of a Jewish Bolshevik conspiracy took hold during the Russian Revolution and spread across the continent. In A Specter Haunting Europe, Paul Hanebrink asks why the myth of Judeo-Bolshevism endured for so long in so many places and what legacy this idea has left for the contemporary far right on both sides of the Atlantic.
*Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University; Jews in Modern Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Paul Hanebrink, Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University
Adolphus Busch Hall
27 Kirkland Street, Hoffman Room
Cambridge, MA 02138
*This event is free and open to the public.
**For more information, contact Gil Rubin gilsrubin@gmail.com