The Postcolonial Jewish Question: Colonialism and the Politics of Difference in Postwar France
The Postcolonial Jewish Question offers a critical genealogy of how Jews in France and North Africa responded to questions of colonialism, race, and difference from the 1950s decolonization struggles through early 2000s debates about “Muslim anti-Semitism.” I show how the colonial question became a central reference point through which Jewish thinkers and organizations made sense of their place in the French postcolonial landscape—at times forging connections with anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, at other times sharply differentiating themselves and asserting their place within a newly imagined Judeo-Christian world.
Forthcoming with University of Chicago Press
The Antisemitism Wars
The Antisemitism Wars brings together scholars across philosophy, history, sociology, and religious studies to analyze how opposition to antisemitism—seemingly a straightforward moral position—has become enmeshed in debates over campus politics, Holocaust memory, and anti-racist solidarity, particularly since October 7, 2023. Contributors examine the weaponization of anti-antisemitism in state politics, its entanglement with Islamophobia, and its deployment against Palestinian solidarity movements. By illuminating the complex dynamics of contemporary anti-antisemitism, the volume aims to enable more productive debate both among scholars and in the broader public sphere.