At a time of rising antisemitism, culminating in two attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh in October 2018 and in Poway this year, scholars from a number of different institutions will convene at the IU Europe Gateway on June 30, 2019, to discuss contemporary threats in North America and Europe.

The return of anti-Jewish hostility is evident in a report from the Anti-Defamation League, which found that nearly 2,000 antisemitic incidents occurred in the United States 2017, a 57 percent increase over the previous year. Similarly, a high increase in such incidents has been reported in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and other countries.

The conference, which will be open to the public, is co-organized by Alvin H. Rosenfeld and Günter Jikeli from the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at IU’s College of Arts and Sciences, who hope to deepen and expand their engagement with Germany and throughout Europe by strengthening ties with existing partner institutions in Germany and forming new links with scholars and their institutions from France, Great Britain, Hungary, and Austria.