Erna B. Rosenfeld Associate Professor for the Study of Antisemitism
Associate Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Associate Professor in the Borns Jewish Studies Program and Germanic Studies
Günther Jikeli holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at the Borns Jewish Studies Program. He is an associate professor in Germanic Studies and Jewish Studies at Indiana University.
He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Antisemitism at Technical University Berlin in 2011. He is a historian and sociologist of modern Europe, with particular interests in the history of antisemitism and in critical antisemitism studies.
His latest book "The Return of Religious Antisemitism?" (ed.) was published in 2021. In 2019, he published (with Olaf Glockner) "Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland heute" [The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today]. In 2015, he published the monograph "European Muslim Antisemitism." with IU Press.
In 2013, he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies. Günther's academic work was recognized in 2019 by The Algemeiner as one of "The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life."
Jikeli is the editor of a book (2014) on forced labor at Peenemunde from 1936 to 1945 for the construction of the V-2 Rocket under technical director Wernher von Braun. The book underlines the irrationality of this endeavor, which led to immense suffering.
His research focuses on online and offline forms of contemporary antisemitism. He runs the research lab "Social Media & Hate."
Dr. Jikeli offers supervision and advice for students who wish to study antisemitism or who are writing a thesis related to antisemitism/ critical antisemitism studies.
Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies (2013).
Named one of the "top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life" by The Algemeiner in 2019.
To be published in 2022: Antisémitisme en France, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes. (With J. Allouche-Benayoun, C. Attias-Danfut, and P. Zawadzki).
Editor, The Return of Religious Antisemitism? MDPI Books 2021: Basel.
Editor (with Olaf Glockner), Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland heute [ The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today] Olms Verlag 2019
Muslim Antisemitism in Europe , Indiana University Press 2015.
Editor (with Joëlle Allouche-Benayoun), Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities. Sources, Comparisons and Educational Challenges . Dordrecht, Springer Science 2013.
Antisemitismus und Diskriminierungswahrnehmungen junger Muslime in Europa. Klartext 2012.
Editor (with Kim Robin Stoller and Hanne Thoma), Strategies and Effective Practices for Fighting Antisemitism Among People with a Muslim or Arab Background in Europe . IIBSA 2007
" Eichmann en prétendu bureaucrate froid ou un mensonge commode pour éviter la responsabilité personnelle en Allemagne." Translated by Eva Segura. Cités 87, no. 3 (September 20, 2021): 211–230.
"Detecting Anti-Jewish Messages on Social Media. Building an Annotated Corpus That Can Serve as A Preliminary Gold Standard." Proceedings of the ICWSM Workshops. US: ICWSM, 2021. https://doi.org/10.36190/2021.14. (With Deepika Awasthi, David Axelrod, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, and Weejeong Joeng)
"Why Is There Resistance to A Working Definition of Antisemitism?" In: JewTh!nk, January 15, 2021.
" A Model for Coming to Terms with the Past? Holocaust Remembrance and Antisemitism in Germany since 1945." In: Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs, January 3, 2021.
" Anti-Semitism in the Muslim World." In: My Jewish Learning, November 2020.
" Assessing the Threat of Antisemitic Harassment and Attack in France—Paris in Focus." In: Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism, 2020, Volume 3, Issue 3.1, 71-82.
" Is Religion Coming Back as a Source for Antisemitic Views?" In: Religions 2020, 11, 255.
"Annotating Antisemitic Online Content. Towards an Applicable Definition of Antisemitism." (With D. Cavar and D. Miehling), In ArXiv, September 2019 Computer Science, arXiv:1910.01214 [cs.CY]
Editor of special issue of Religions: The Return of Religious Antisemitism? 2019, http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/anti.
"Antisemitic Acts and Attitudes in Contemporary France. The Effects on French Jews." In: Antisemitism Studies. Volume 2, Issue 2, Fall 2018, 297-320.
"Explaining the Discrepancy of Antisemitic Acts and Attitudes in 21st Century France." In: Contemporary Jewry. July 2017, Volume 37, Issue 2, 257–273.
"L'antisémitisme en milieux et pays musulmans : débats et travaux autour d'un processus complexe" In: Revue d'Histoire Moderne & Contemporaine, numéro spécial, 62-2/3 2015, 89-114.
" Antisemitic Attitudes among Muslims in Europe: A Survey Review," ed. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP Occasional Paper Series, May 2015.
Jikeli, G. (2010). Anti-Semitism in youth language: the pejorative use of the terms for "Jew" in German and French today. In: conflict & communication online, 9 (1), 1-13.
To be published in 2022: "Towards an AI Definition of Antisemitism?" In: Sabine von Mering and Monika Hübscher (eds.), Antisemitism on Social Media. Routledge. (With Damir Cavar, Weejeong Jeong, Daniel Miehling, Pauravi Wagh, and Denizhan Pak)
"Attitudes of Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Germany toward Jews." In: Armin Lange, Kerstin Mayerhofer, Dina Porat, and Lawrence H. Schiffmann (eds.), Confronting Antisemitism in Modern Media, the Legal and Political Worlds. De Gruyter: 2021, 239–68.
" Antisemitismus unter Geflüchteten aus Syrien und dem Irak." In: Nikolaus Hagen and Tobias Neuburger (eds.), Antisemitismus in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Theoretische Überlegungen, Empirische Fallbeispiele, Pädagogische Praxis. Innsbruck University Press: 2020, 121-146.
"L'antisémitisme musulman : pourquoi la gauche n'en parle pas et la droite en parle trop." In: Annick Duraffour, Philippe Gumplowicz, Grégoire Kauffmann, Isabelle de Mecquenem, and Paul Zawadzki (eds.), La modernité disputée. Textes offerts à Pierre-André Taguieff. CNRS Editions : 2020, 45-55.
"Antisemitismus in der Flüchtlingsdebatte und unter Geflüchteten." In: Samuel Salzborn (ed.), Antisemitismus seit 9/11. Ereignisse, Debatten, Kontroversen. Nomos 2019: Baden-Baden, 301-326.
"Discrimination against Muslims and Antisemitic Views among Young Muslims in Europe." In: Mikael Shainkman (ed.), Antisemitism Today and Tomorrow: Global Perspectives on the Many Faces of Contemporary Antisemitism. Academic Studies Press 2018: Boston, 101-124.
"L'antisémitisme chez les jeunes musulmans de France." In: D. Schnapper, P. Salmona, and P. Nahum (eds.), L'Antisémitisme en France XIXe-XXIe siècle. Les Editions Odile Jacob 2016: Paris, 215-230.
"Anti-Semitism within the Extreme Right and Islamists' Circles." In: O. Glöckner and H. Fireberg (eds.), Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany. De Gruyter 2015: Oldenburg, 188-207.
"A Framework for Assessing Antisemitism: Three Case Studies (Dieudonné, Erdoğan, and Hamas)." In: A. H. Rosenfeld (ed.), Deciphering Antisemitism. Indiana University Press 2015: Bloomington, 43-76.
"Antisemitismus unter Muslimen – Debatten, Umfragen, Einflussfaktoren." In: M. Schwarz-Friesel (ed.), Gebildeter Antisemitismus. Eine Herausforderung für Politik und Zivilgesellschaft. Nomos 2015: Baden-Baden, 187-216.
"Discrimination of European Muslims: Self-Perceptions, Experiences and Discourses of Victimhood." In: D. Soen, M. Shechory & S. B. David (eds.), Minority Groups: Coercion, Discrimination, Exclusion, Deviance and the Quest for Equality. Nova Science 2012: Hauppauge, N.Y., 77-96.
"The Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism among Youth from Muslim and Non-Muslim Backgrounds in Berlin." In: M. Fineberg, S. Samuels and M. Weitzman (eds.), Antisemitism: The Generic Hatred. Essays in Memory of Simon Wiesenthal. London: Mitchell 2007: London, 198-211.
Review of : Taguieff, Pierre-André: Une France antijuive?. Regards sur la nouvelle configuration judéophobe. Paris 2015. In: H-Soz-Kult, 15 December 2016.
Review of: Kenneth L. Marcus: The Definition of Anti-Semitism, Oxford University Press 2015, 296pp. In: JUSTICE, No.57, Winter 2015-2016.
Review of: Schmidt, Leo; Mense, Uta K.: Denkmallandschaft Peenemünde. Eine wissenschaftliche Bestandsaufnahme - Conservation Management Plan. In: H-Soz-Kult, 17 April 2014.
Review of: Andrei Oişteanu's Inventing the Jew. In: Journal for the Study of Antisemitism, 1/1, 2015, 79-84.
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