Professor Günther Jikeli, historian and sociologist, holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism/ Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is an associate professor at Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies.
Before coming to the U.S., he has held positions in academia and diplomacy. He is has lectured widely at universities including Yale, McGill, Sorbonne, Science Po, Oxford University, Trinity College Dublin, Lisbon University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and ... view more »
Professor Günther Jikeli, historian and sociologist, holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism/ Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is an associate professor at Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies.
Before coming to the U.S., he has held positions in academia and diplomacy. He is has lectured widely at universities including Yale, McGill, Sorbonne, Science Po, Oxford University, Trinity College Dublin, Lisbon University, Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, and organizations such as the European Parliament Working Group on Antisemitism, UNESCO, OSCE, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the French National Library, the Salzburg Initiative, Beit Hatfutsot, the German Protest Church Congress, the Henry Jackson Society, and the Global Forum Combating Antisemitism.
He is a research fellow at the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (GSRL/CNRS), Paris. In 2013, he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation and Tel Aviv University.
Günther Jikeli was listed on The Algemeiner’s list of “The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life,” in 2019.
His latest book (with Olaf Glockner) “The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today” [in German] was published in 2019. In 2015, he published \”European Muslim Antisemitism.\” with IU Press and “Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities” (with Joelle Allouche-Benayoun) in 2013. His current research focuses on online antisemitism
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