Israel’ s Hatred and modern Antisemitism

The aim of the seminar is to examine some attempts of historian and thinkers after the holocaust to understand traditional Israel’s Hatred and Antisemitism. The focus of the study will be on historians such as Ettinger Shmual and Katz Jacob on one hand and thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Albert Memmi and Jean-Paul Sartre on the other. In this frame we will try to find out if and how the historical events that had taken place after the Second World War had influence on the attempts to describe and understand these issues. Besides we will try also to find out the relation between the general thought of these thinkers and historians and their understanding of traditional Israel’s hatred and Antisemitism.