ISCA Early Career Speaker Series, Session Six: Weaponizing Holocaust Memory and Antisemitism in the Ivory Tower

December 03, 2025.

"How Memory of the Holocaust is Used against Jews Today" - Marlene Gallner

Marlene Gallner is a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. She is one of the editors of sans phrase. Zeitschrift für Ideologiekritik, the Vienna-based biannual German-language journal dedicated to social and cultural analyses in the tradition of Frankfurt school critical theory. She has lectured and published widely on antisemitism, postwar German society, and post-Shoah philosophy. 

 "Campus Antisemitism and Critical Theory" - Zahava Feldstein

Zahava Feldstein is a researcher, speaker, and author specializing in campus antisemitism, Jewish education, and ethnic studies. She has spoken at universities and organizations worldwide and leads research, curriculum, and network development initiatives bridging scholarship and public discourse. Zahava received a MA in Divinity (History of Judaism) from the University of Chicago, where she was a Divinity Dean’s Fellow and a recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) academic-year award. She earned a MA in Education from Stanford University, where she was a Jim Joseph Doctoral Fellow in Education & Jewish Studies prior to withdrawing from the PhD program in response to pervasive and targeted antisemitism. Zahava is currently pursuing a doctorate in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College in its inaugural cohort. An impactful storyteller whose writing reaches broad audiences, Zahava’s November 2024 Moment Magazine op-ed about antisemitism at Stanford was the second most-read of the year, and her 2025 Times of Israel essay—“How I Learned to Stop Apologizing for Being a Jew”—trended globally within hours of publication, reaching #2 on the site’s “Most Popular” list. 

Music: "Pleasant Porridge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 
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