Download PDF The Brandeis Center is pleased to announce its contribution to the newly released edited volume, Antisemitism in North America: New World, Old Hate (Leiden: Brill, 2016). In this new volume, editors Steven K. Baum, Neil J. Kressel, Florette Cohen, and Steven Leonard Jacobs have brought together an impressive array of scholars from diverse disciplines and political orientations to assess the condition of the Jews in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. The contributors do not always agree with each other, but they offer perspectives on why the Jewish experience in North America has neither been free from anti-Semitism nor ever so unwelcoming and dangerous as the countries from which they came. LDB President Kenneth L. Marcus contributes an important chapter on “Antisemitism in North American Higher Education.” President Marcus’ chapter examines the paradox of contemporary campus anti-Semitism: universities should be oases of reason and tolerance, and yet they have become stages for the resurgence of an old hatred. In addition, Marcus discusses the sources of resurgent campus anti-Semitism, its manifestations in the United States and Canada, and the responses available to combat it. Finally, the chapter addresses the definition of anti-Semitism in the context of North American campuses. This is the issue to which Marcus dedicated his most recent book, The Definition of Anti-Semitism (Oxford: 2015). President Marcus commented, “I am pleased to contribute to this important publication and congratulate Steve Baum and his co-editors on their achievement. The resurgence of global anti-Semitism is an understudied field, and there is a critical need for more research in this area. It is not just an academic matter. We need more research because we need more action, and research-based action is important for success in public policy.” Marcus’s chapter on Anti-Semitism in North American Higher Education is just the latest in a series of recent publications in which LDB has explained the history, etiology, nature and consequences of resurgent anti-Semitism around the world and in North American higher education and provided practical solutions for how to combat anti-Semitism using law and public policy. Marcus explained: “The Brandeis Center’s lawyers have a unique perspective on anti-Semitism research, especially when it comes to campus anti-Semitism, because we are in the trenches fighting anti-Semitism everyday. At the same time, our research initiative strengthens our approach to law and public policy, because it provides a grounding in data, knowledge, and theory.” If you would like to learn more about the book, please follow the link below: Anti-Semitism in North America: New World, Old Hate (http://www.brill.com/products/book/antisemitism-north-america)