European Leo Baeck Lecture Series 2011
Veranstaltet vom Fritz Bauer Institut in Kooperation mit dem Leo Baeck Institute London
und dem Jüdischen Museum Frankfurt am Main
Vortrag in englicher Sprache!

The claims about Jewish intellectual superiority surface regularly even in the 21st century. Modern genetics, it is claimed, proves that Jews are smart and that this is a singular component of defining »being Jewish«. It can’t be a bad thing to be thought to be smart. Or is it? This claim reveals itself to be a form of insidious philosemitism, an on-going form of anti-Semitism, which has traditionally masked itself as being supportive of the Jews. Often it is your supposed friends that you have to worry about most.

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. His Obesity: The Biography appeared with Oxford University Press in 2010; his most recent edited volume, Wagner and Cinema (with Jeongwon Joe), was published in that same year. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the Jews, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986. From 2007 to the present he served as Professor at the The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London; 2010 to 2013 as a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities.

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