Scholarship, Advocacy, and Antisemitism at Yale

On June 19, 2011, Yale University announced a new program: the “Yale Program for the Study of Anti-Semitism“(YPSA). Maurice Samuels from the Department of French will lead the Program. Yale says in its announcement for the program:
“I am hopeful that this program will produce major scholarship on the vitally important subject of antisemitism. Professor Samuels and his colleagues have Yale’s remarkable library resources at their disposal, including the Fortunoff Video Archives of Holocaust Testimonies and the 95,000-volume Judaica collection of the Yale Library.
I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your keen interest in the study of anti-Semitism at Yale. This is an exciting new beginning, and we all look forward to seeing the results. Read more