An Apology from the Publisher of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Dr. Marvin C. and Sharon A. Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series

Maya Balakirsky Katz (Bar-Ilan University)

A 2-Part Lecture Series: Reclaiming the Forgotten in the History of Antisemitism

Lecture 1: Monday, January 13 at 4PM

Location: JHB100 (170 St. George Street)

An Apology from the Publisher of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The talk recovers a public apology that the second publisher of the text that became popularly known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion wrote to the Jewish people. A close analysis of this 1905 apology sharpens our understanding of the formative history of official statements, retractions, and amendments, which play a definitive role in public discourse today.

Lecture 2: Wednesday, January 15 at 4PM

Location: JHB100 (170 St. George Street)

The Agudah’s Belated Holocaust Memory Project

The talk explores a unique visual and ideological attitude that organized Orthodoxy, under the auspices of the Agudath Yisroel movement, took to Holocaust memorialization in relationship to Soviet-American relations during the Cold War and its aftermath following the fall of the Soviet Union.

Maya Balakirsky Katz is a psychoanalyst and an Associate Professor of Jewish Art at Bar-Ilan University. She is the author of the books The Visual Culture of Chabad (Cambridge, 2010), Drawing the Iron Curtain: Jews and the Golden Age of Soviet Animation (Rutgers, 2016), and Intersections between Jews and Media (Brill, 2020). Her most recent book Freud, Jung, and Jonah (Cambridge University Press, 2022) explores the exposition of religion during the founding years of the first psychoanalytic periodicals.