W.W. Norton will publish historian Pamela Nadell’s new book Antisemitism, an American Tradition, on October 14, 2025. In this book, already acclaimed as “the book the world needs now,” Pamela Nadell chronicles the history of this hatred of Jews and Jewish communities from colonial days to the present. Pamela Nadell is the author of America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award “Jewish Book of the Year.”

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October 23, 2025 Antisemitism, an American Tradition Virtual Book Launch, American Jewish Committee

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October 23, 2025, American Jewish Committee AJC Advocacy Anywhere virtual series. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.

Antisemitism, an American Tradition explores the depth of this fraught history. The book reveals how Jews battled antisemitism through the law and by creating organizations to speak for them. Jews would also fight back with their fists or join with allies in fighting all types of hate. This momentous work sounds the alarm on a hatred that continues to plague our country.

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October 20, 2025 Antisemitism, an American Tradition Book Launch, University of Connecticut/Mandell Jewish Community Center, West Hartford, CT

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October 20, 2025 at the Mandell Center, West Hartford, CT. Jews met antisemitism on landing in New Amsterdam in 1654 when Peter Stuyvesant tried to expel them. The founding of the US changed little, as negative European stereotypes rooted into American soil. They faced restrictions on holding office, admission to schools, and employment in industry, while their synagogues and cemeteries were vandalized. Recently, white nationalists chanted “Jews will not replace us” in Charlottesville, Virgina, and a gunman killed eleven members at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue building. Antisemitic incidents have increased each year.

Antisemitism, an American Tradition explores the depth of this fraught history. The book reveals how Jews battled antisemitism through the law and by creating organizations to speak for them. Jews would also fight back with their fists or join with allies in fighting all types of hate. This momentous work sounds the alarm on a hatred that continues to plague our country.

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October 19, 2025 Antisemitism, an American Tradition Book Launch at The Tree of Life, Pittsburgh, PA

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October 19, 2025. The New York Times columnist Bret Stephens joins Pamela Nadell at The Tree of Life for the Pittsburgh book launch of Antisemitism, an American Tradition =. Tracing the long history of antisemitism in American history, Nadell shows the roots of the hatred that shattered Pittsburgh’s Jewish community and their neighbors.

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October 14, 2025 Date of Publication of Antisemitism, an American Tradition – Book Tour Starts!

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Pamela Nadell is excited to share that her forthcoming book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition, will be published on October 14, 2025. This timely exploration of the deep-rooted history of antisemitism in America sheds light on its enduring presence and contemporary resurgence. Stay tuned—book tour dates will be announced soon!

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October 14, 2025 Antisemitism, an American Tradition Book Launch with Senator Ben Cardin at Politics and Prose, Washington, DC

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On October 14, Maryland’s former Senator Ben Cardin joins award-winning historian Pamela S. Nadell will appear at Politics and Prose Bookstore to launch her new book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition. Drawing on centuries of history, Nadell will examine how antisemitism has shaped American life and how Jewish Americans have resisted through activism, law, and solidarity.

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September 29, 2025 Antisemitism, an American Tradition Pre-Publication Book Launch with The Atlantic’s Franklin Foer, Center for Jewish History, New York City

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Join award-winning historian, American University Professor Pamela Nadell in conversation with Franklin Foer, author of The Atlantic’s “The Golden Age of American Jewry is Ending” to to discuss her new timely new book Antisemitsm, an American Tradition.  Nadell explores the deep roots of antisemitism in the US from colonial times to the present and the powerful ways American Jews have resisted this hatred and bigotry.

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August 3-7, 2025 “America’s Jewish Women” and “Antisemitism, an American Tradition” Guest Speaker at the Everett Jewish Life Center, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY

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Pamela S. Nadell will be a guest speaker at the Everett Jewish Life Center at the Chautauqua Institution from August 3–7, 2025, where she will discuss her acclaimed book America’s Jewish Women and her forthcoming work Antisemitism, an American Tradition. The program will explore the contributions of Jewish women to American history and examine the persistence of antisemitism in American society.

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The Rise of Antisemitism and Political Violence in the U.S.

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“Antisemitism and political violence are both part of the same problem,” said Pamela Nadell, a historian and director of the Jewish Studies program at American University, who is quoted in an article in Time. “There are so many moments where legitimate criticism of Israel crosses into antisemitism—opening the path for someone to shoot two people simply because he believes they are Jews.”

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A Turning Point for Antisemitism?

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In her June 2025 Hadassah Magazine article, historian Pamela Nadell reflects on the rising tide of antisemitic violence in the U.S., from the murder of two young professionals outside Washington, D.C.’s Capital Jewish Museum to attacks on Jewish homes and demonstrators. These alarming incidents, she asks, may signal a turning point for American Jews.

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