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Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue, Brighton, MA 02135, United States of America | Tel: +1 (617) 782-6290 | Academic Studies Press 28 Montfern Avenue, Brighton, MA 02135, United States of America | Tel: +1 (617) 782-6290 | www.academicstudiespress.com — CALL FOR PAPERS — JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM (JCA) EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Clemens Heni (Director, The Berlin Intl. Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA)) EDITORS Lesley Klaff (Sheffield-Hallam University, UK) Neil Kressel (William Paterson University, US) Michael Kreutz (The Berlin Intl. Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA)) REVIEWS EDITOR Ron Jontof-Hutter (The Berlin Intl. Center for the Study of Antisemitism (BICSA)) SPECIAL ISSUE: "POSTCOLONIALISM AND ANTISEMITISM" OF THE JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM (JCA), ISSUE 2 (SPRING 2018) Deadline for submissions: September 15th 2017 Postcolonialism has been the dernier crie of the humanities and social sciences for many years now. This special issue of JCA wants to analyze mainly two aspects of postcolonial ideology: 1) Postcolonialism and the Shoah: What is the connection between postcolonial thinking and antisemitism in regard of the Shoah? Why, since when and how has it become mainstream to connect the history of racism and colonialism to the history of the Holocaust? Are postcolonial scholars as well as scholars in comparative genocide studies eager – and if so, why - to include the Holocaust in their framework? Does this reject the uniqueness of the Shoah and the unprecedented character of Auschwitz? Is there a tendency, even among scholars in antisemitism, to link racism, colonialism and the Shoah? What are the possible consequences for Holocaust Studies and an institution like Yad Vashem, taken these tendencies in scholarship to frame the Holocaust as “genocide among others”? 2) What is the connection between postcolonial ideology and anti-Zionism? The superstar of postcolonialism is Edward Said. His study “Orientalism” (1978) culminated in an attack on the Jewish state. How has scholarship – in Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Political Science, Islamic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Comparative Genocide Studies, Sociology, Philosophy, History, Jewish Studies and related fields – dealt with Said, his legacy and the connection to antisemitism and postcolonialism? How is Said linked to other leading postcolonial celebrities, Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, as well as to W.E.B. Du Bois and other important thinkers of postcolonialism avant la lettre, including Fanon, Aimé Césaire and others? What is the connection (like in Islamic and Middle East Studies) of postcolonialism and the reluctance to deal with antisemitism, including Islamism? The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (JCA) invites scholars from all relevant disciplines to send us their contributions – original articles for peer-review, EDITORIAL BOARD Edward Alexander (University of Washington) Denis MacShane (Former MP, Labour, UK) Samuel Barnai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Éric Marty (Paris Diderot University) Danny Ben-Moshe (Deakin University) Fiamma Nirenstein (Interparliamentary Coalition on Combating Antisemitism) Alan L. Berger (Florida Atlantic University) Stephen Norwood (The University of Oklahoma) A.J. Caschetta (Rochester Institute of Technology) Andrei Oișteanu (University of Bucharest) Ben Cohen (Senior Editor, The Tower Magazine) Rafal Pankowski (Collegium Civitas) Stephanie Courouble-Share (Inst. for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Daniel Pipes (President, The Middle East Forum) Policy) Eunice Pollack (University of North Texas) Leonidas Donskis (Vytautas Magnus University) (1962–2016) Asaf Romirowsky (Fellow, The Middle East Forum) Yoav Gelber (Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya) Gerald Steinberg (Bar-Ilan University) Benno Herzog (University of Valencia) Shmuel Trigano (University of Paris X-Nanterre) Alfredo Hidalgo Lavié (The National Distance Education University) Laurence Weinbaum (Chief Editor, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs) Efraim Karsh (Kings College, UK; Bar-Ilan University) Elhanan Yakira (Hebrew University) Dovid Katz (Independent Scholar, Lithuania) Efraim Zuroff (Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem Office) James Kirchick (Tablet Magazine Columnist) Jakob Zollmann (Berlin Social Science Center) Dimitri Kravvaris (Independent Scholar, Germany/Greece) Richard Landes (Bar-Ilan University) For article guidelines and submission instructions, please visit www.academicstudiespress.com/journals/jca .
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