Islam and Anti

International Conference
Islam and Anti-Semitism
November 7th-8th 2016
at the University of Vienna - Aula am Campus (Spitalgasse 2/ Hof 1.11, 1090 Wien)
http://campus.univie.ac.at/en/general-map/
Organized by
Klaus Davidowicz and Armin Lange, Institute for Jewish Studies, University of Vienna
Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University, Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry
Charles Asher Small, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
Pre-registration is required
Conference sponsored by:
GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE DER
UNIVERSITÄT TEL AVIV IN
ÖSTERREICH
Israelische Botschaft in
Österreich
Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien,
Magistratsabteilung 7
Monday, November 7th
13:00-14:00
Registration
14:15
Welcome Address
14:30-15:20
Klaus Davidowicz and Armin Lange (University of Vienna), Ancient and Medieval Christian
Antisemitism and its Influence on Islamic Antisemitism
15:20-16:00
Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles), Jews in
the Quran
16:00-16:15: Coffee Break
16:15-16:55
Jane S. Gerber (City University of New York), Jews in Muslim Spain: The Myth of the
Golden Age
16:55-17:35
Dan Michman (Bar Ilan University and International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad
VaShem), Hitler, Hajj Amin el-Husayni and the Decision-Making Process on the Final
Solution: Reality and Myth
17:35-17:50: Coffee Break
17:50-18:30
Stephan Grigat (University of Vienna, Moses-Mendelssohn Centre Potsdam), The
Antisemitism of the Ajatollahs: Holocaust Denial and Hatred of Israel in Khamenei's and
Rouhani's Iran
19:00-20:30 Public Event
19:00-19:15
Greetings: Deputy Head of Mission Hadas Wittenberg Silverstein (Embassy of Israel to
Austria)
Greetings: Vize-Dean Dorothea Nolde (Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies)
19:15-20:00
Dina Porat, University of Tel Aviv and Yad VaShem, Two Summers in Jerusalem: Jews and
Arabs in 1942 and 1962
20:00-20:30 Wine Reception
20:30-22:00 Dinner for the Conference Speakers
Tuesday, November 8th
9:30-10:10
Charles Small (ISGAP), Globalization, the Rise of Radical Political Islam and the
Acquiescence of the West
10:10-10:50
Raphael Israeli (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Muslim Anti-Semitism in Europe and
North America
10:50-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-11:50
Raimund Fastenbauer (IKG Vienna, University of Vienna), Islamic Antisemitism –
Reflections of European Antisemitism and Political Antizionism
11:50-12:20
Esther Webman (Tel Aviv University), Muslim Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
12:20-13:30 Lunch Break
13:30-14:20
Matthias Küntzel (Hamburg), Nazi-Propaganda in the Middle East and Its Repercussions in
the Postwar Period
14:20-15:00
Meir Litvak (Tel Aviv University), Islamic Radical Movements and Anti-Semitism

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