The Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) is one of seven institutes in the world dedicated to the scholarly study of antisemitism. Founded in 2010 by Canadian historian
Catherine Chatterley, the Institute is a national organization based in
Winnipeg
Winnipeg () is the capital and largest city of the province of Manitoba in Canada. It is centred on the confluence of the Red and Assiniboine rivers, near the longitudinal centre of North America. , Winnipeg had a city population of 749, ...
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CISA's Annual Shindleman Family Lecture has been delivered by US State Department Special Envoy
Hannah Rosenthal,
Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian, best known as author of the books '' Denying the Holocaust'' (1993), ''History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier'' (2005), ''The Eichmann Trial'' (2011), and ...
,
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen,
Alvin Rosenfeld,
Jeffrey Herf
Jeffrey C. Herf (born April 24, 1947) is an American historian of Modern European, in particular, modern German history. He is Distinguished University Professor of modern European at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Biography
He was born ...
,
Irwin Cotler
Irwin Cotler, PC, OC, OQ (born May 8, 1940) is a retired Canadian politician who was Member of Parliament for Mount Royal from 1999 to 2015. He served as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada from 2003 until the Liberal gov ...
,
David Harris, and
James Carroll.
CISA facilitates research, scholarship, and teaching on the nature and history of antisemitism, in both its classical and contemporary forms, and provides public education programming on this subject matter for Canadians. In 2016, CISA established the first academic journal for the study of antisemitism, ''Antisemitism Studies'', published by
Indiana University Press. The editorial board includes prominent scholars such as
Yehuda Bauer
Yehuda Bauer ( he, יהודה באואר; born April 6, 1926) is a Czech-born Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University ...
,
David Nirenberg
David Nirenberg is a medievalist and intellectual historian. He is the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He previously taught at the University of Chicago, where he was Dean of the Divinity Scho ...
,
Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah Esther Lipstadt (born March 18, 1947) is an American historian, best known as author of the books '' Denying the Holocaust'' (1993), ''History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier'' (2005), ''The Eichmann Trial'' (2011), and ...
, and the Editor-in-Chief is
Catherine Chatterley.
The organization's website states that it "is a registered Canadian
charity
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committed to the uprooting of hatred and stereotypes through progressive education and by working cooperatively to build a more humane future for all people."
CISA's Director and Chairman were invited to accompany the Canadian government to Israel as part of its official delegation in January 2014. In 2021,
FAST Fighting Antisemitism Together merged into CISA. Its programs, Voices into Action and Choose your Voice, have been expanded under the banner of CISA's human rights program and are offered free of charge to teachers in over 22,000 Canadian schools.
See also
* Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism,
Indiana University
Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Campuses
Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI.
*Indiana Universi ...
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, Hebrew University
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Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University
* Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck,
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
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Center for Research on Antisemitism
The Center for Research on Antisemitism (''Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung'', ZfA) at the Technical University, Berlin is a research centre dedicated to "researching and combating anti-Semitism."[Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) is an American non-partisan organization "committed to fighting antisemitism on the battlefield of ideas."
ISGAP was founded in 2014 by its acting director Charles Asher Small. ...]
(ISGAP)
External links
Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism(CISA)
Antisemitism Studies
References
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Learned societies of Canada
2010 establishments in Manitoba
Scientific organizations established in 2010
Educational institutions established in 2010
Centers for the study of antisemitism