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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May 1, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Virtual Book Talk, sponsored by Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg and Harrisburg Area Community College

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May 1, 2026. Sponsored by Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg and Harrisburg Area Community College. 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.

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July 13, 2026 Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Women’s League for Conservative Judaism Convention, Alexandria, Virginia

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I will speak and info and date

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