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Charles Asher Small is a Canadian intellectual, the founder and director of the
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. ...
the first international interdisciplinary research center dedicated to studying
antisemitism Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism) is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is considered to be a form of racism. Antis ...
with a contemporary focus.


Biography

Dr. Charles Asher Small is the founding director and president of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy. He is also a Research scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Centre for the Middle East and African Studies, and the Hartog School of Government and Policy, Tel Aviv University. Small received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, McGill University, Montreal; M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in Economics, Development Planning Unit, University College London; and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil.), St. Antony's College, Oxford University. Small completed post-doctorate research at the Groupement de recherche ethnicité et société, Université de Montréal. He was the VATAT Research Fellow of the Ministry of Higher Education, at Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, and taught in departments of sociology and geography at Goldsmiths' College, University of London; Tel Aviv University; and the Institute of Urban Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Small is the author of books and articles including the six Volume "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity"; "the Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective"; and "Social Theory – a Historical Analysis of Canadian Socio-cultural Policies Race and the Other", Eleven International Publishers; and The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective. Small is committed to creating scholarly programming and research on contemporary antisemitism at top-tier universities internationally and establishing contemporary antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, he has a
D.Phil. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is ...
from
Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the ...
, and has taught at the
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 ...
, Ben Gurion University,
Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
, and
Hebrew University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI; he, הַאוּנִיבֶרְסִיטָה הַעִבְרִית בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם) is a public research university based in Jerusalem, Israel. Co-founded by Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weiz ...
. Small was also the Koret Distinguished Scholar, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was the Director/Associate Professor of
Urban Studies Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to the impact of urban design on community development efforts. The core theoretica ...
at
Southern Connecticut State University Southern Connecticut State University (Southern Connecticut, Southern Connecticut State, SCSU, or simply Southern) is a public university in New Haven, Connecticut. Part of the Connecticut State University System, it was founded in 1893 and is g ...
. Small has been a visiting professor at University College London; McGill University, Montreal; the University of Vilnius, Lithuania, and Cape Town University, South Africa. He also spoke as an expert on anti-Semitism at the Australian, British, Canadian, Chilean, and Italian Parliaments, the German Bundestag, and at the United Nations, Geneva, and New York. On September 19, 2006, Yale University founded The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, the first North American university-based center for the study of the subject, housed at the Institute for Social and Policy Studies, with Small as director and founder. He cited the increase in anti-Semitism worldwide in recent years as generating a "need to understand the current manifestation of this disease".Yale creates center to study anti-Semitism
Associated Press, September 19, 2006 In August 2010 in New Haven, Small was elected as the President of the newly formed International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA).


Study of antisemitism

Charles Asher Small and his colleagues at ISGAP have been at the forefront of ensuring that the scholars deal with issues of contemporary antisemitism at the academic level, around the world.


Books

* The ISGAP Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, 2018, ISGAP, New York * The ISGAP Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, 2016, ISGAP, New York * The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective, 2015, ISGAP, New York * Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity An Introduction, 2014, New York * Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity, ISGAP Publishers, 2013 VI Volume, New York. * Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity, Brill Press, Amsterdam, 2013. * Social Theory - a Historical Analysis of Canadian Socio-Cultural Policies, 'Race' and The 'Other': A Case Study of Social and Spatial Segregation in Montreal, Eleven International Publishing, Amsterdam, 2013. * Charles Asher Small, Olufemi Vaughan, and M. Wright; Globalization and Marginalization: Essays on the Paradoxes of Global, Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Academic Press, 2005. * "Global Antisemitism: Assault on Human Rights"


Books (selection)

*Small, C. in eds. with Ostendorf Wim and Schnell Izhak "National Identity in a Transforming Quebec Society: Socio-Economic and Spatial Segregation in Montreal", Studies in Segregation and De-Segregation, Avebury, London, 2001. *"Nationalism and Difference in a Cosmopolitan City: The Case of Montreal". Geography Research Forum, Vol. 20, pages 70–101, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 2000 *"Social and Spatial Differentiation in Montreal: Assessing a Changing Society", Journal of Research (Paper Number 57, August), School of Geography, Oxford, 2000. *"Cosmopolitan Planning: A Model for Reconciliation in Jerusalem", Cantilevers, Vol 4, No 21, 1999. *"Montreal, Nationalism and a Divided City", Jewish Chronicle, London, November 1996. *A Report on English University Programmes: Concerning Issues of 'Race' and 'Ethnic' Relations; Canadian Ethnic Studies, Secretariat of State, Ottawa, 1995.


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Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism

Interview with Charles Small
from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Radical Islam and the Nuclear Bomb
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