Heterophobic Entanglements

• In Event: Relations and Tensions between Jews and Non-Jews: Conceptual Challenges

Abstract

Building upon his critique of exceptionalist/uniqueness narratives of anti-Semitism developed in his recent book Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism, Jonathan Judaken will develop his argument for what he terms “heterophobic entanglements.” Maintaining that a shift from the category of anti-Semitism to Judeophobia enables the conceptual rigor attentive to periodization and different modalities of stigmatization and oppression (from stereotypes and prejudice to discrimination, racialization, and genocide), Judaken will consider a series of examples from the early medieval period to the present that offer new understandings of the linkages between anti-Black, anti-Muslim, and anti-Jewish heterophobia that emerge from relational understandings of the past.

Author

• Jonathan Judaken, Washington University in St. Louis