A short History of Anti-Semitism

Mondays, May 5, 12, 19, & June 2 from 12 noon-1:30 pm $150 | $125 for Spertus members Call 312.322.1773. All sessions include a kosher lunch. Please reserve by Wednesday April 30. In four lunchtime sessions, this course analyzes anti-Jewish discourse since antiquity. Taught by historian Dr. Dean Bell, the course covers anti-Judaism in the classical world, the Crusades and expulsions in the Middle Ages, tolerance and restrictions in the early modern period, and racial anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Dean Bell is Dean and Chief Academic Officer at Spertus. He earned his BA at the University of Chicago and MA and PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Berkeley, DePaul University, University of Illinois