James Loeffler

There too, many of us are squeamish about how these kinds of political and social hierarchies create profound inequalities, even if we may selfishly appreciate that at least in that story, Jews are not once again at the bottom of the social status hierarchy.

I was thinking about this question and thinking about how it applies to America as I read through James Loeffler's new and outstanding history of antisemitism and free speech in America.

exceptional hatred.

Jim is a friend and a colleague, the Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow here at the Sholem Hartman Institute.