Yom HaShoah: Some pogroms were about politics, not anti-Semitism – prof
Yom HaShoah: Some pogroms were about politics, not anti-Semitism – prof
- May 4, 2016
- Jeffrey Kopstein, political science professor, featured by The Canadian Jewish News, May 4, 2016
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In comparing three pogroms that happened at three different points in Jewish history,
political science professor Jeffrey Kopstein claims that some anti-Jewish violence
of the “neighbor-on-neighbor” variety was politically, not culturally or ideologically,
driven. Kopstein, of the University of California, Irvine, made this case April 18
at a lecture to a packed room at the University of Toronto.
For the full story, please visit http://www.cjnews.com/living-jewish/jewish-learning/some-pogroms-were-about-politics-not-anti-semitism-prof.
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