October 28, 2025 Antisemitism, an American Tradition Moment Magazine Virtual Conversation
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Pamela Nadell’s nonfiction has explored the long history of Jews and Judaism in America. Her books include Conservative Judaism in America, Women Who Would Be Rabbis, America’s Jewish Women, and the forthcoming Antisemitism, an American Tradition. She has edited or co-edited books on American Jewish women’s history and women and American Judaism. Her scholarship brings a much-needed historical perspective to understanding the challenges facing America’s Jews and Jewish communities today.
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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.
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!
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.
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.
On June 5, 2025, Pamela S. Nadell will participate in the “On the Front Lines: French-American Forum on Antisemitism” in Paris, sponsored by AJC and CRIF. She will lead a session titled “Two Different Societies, Two Different Approaches? Recognizing and Understanding Antisemitism on the Left and on the Right.”
As part of the symposium The End of an Era? Jews and Elite Universities on May 18th at the Center for Jewish History, historian Pamela S. Nadell will lead a key session, “Columbia and Harvard: The Exception or the Rule?” Drawing on her expertise in American Jewish history, Nadell will explore how these institutions have shaped Jewish academic life and whether today’s crises reflect new challenges or enduring patterns.
In this upcoming virtual conversation taking place on May 18, 2025, Pamela S. Nadell, Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, will join JRC member Daniel Greene to explore the persistence of antisemitism in American society. Drawing from her forthcoming book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition, Professor Nadell will trace the historical roots of antisemitic rhetoric and discrimination, connecting past patterns to the present-day rise in incidents across the country.
Pamela Nadell will be at Brandeis University on May 4, 2025 for the Celebration of Professor Jonathan Sarna’s Scholarship. Jonathan D. Sarna is University Professor and the Joseph H. & Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History at Brandeis University. Author or editor of more than thirty books on American Jewish history and life, his American Judaism: A History – recently published in a second edition — won six awards including the 2004 “Everett Jewish Book of the Year Award” from the Jewish Book Council.
Pamela Nadell, professor and Patrick Clendenen Chair in women’s and Gender History at American University, is a historian specializing in American Jewish history antisemitism. She authored America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award’s “Jewish Book of the Year.” Her new book Antisemitism, An American Tradition will be published on October 14, 2025 (W.W. Norton) and was supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award.
Nadell also wrote Women Who Would be Rabbis, which was a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award in Women’s Studies, and has consulted for museums, including Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History, Pittsburgh’s rebuild of the Tree of Life Congregation, and Tel Aviv’s ANU: The Museum of the Jewish People. A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, she lectures widely and teaches courses on antisemitism, the Holocaust, and American Jewish History. She has testified before Congress three times and was the fourth witness in the congressional hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and University of Pennsylvania.
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