Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism

Jonathan G. Campbell was Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies & Judaism at Bristol University until 2017. He has a range of teaching and research experience in Jewish Studies, with recent work focusing on contemporary resurgent antisemitism. He co-organized (with Lesley Klaff) two Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquia on Contemporary Antisemitism in 2015 and 2016. He is particularly interested in the role of Christian traditions in negative attitudes towards Jews, including the growing anti-Israel activism of today’s mainstream churches in Europe and North America.Klaff Lesley D. :

Lesley D. Klaff is a senior lecturer in law at Sheffield Hallam University and an affiliate professor of law at Haifa University. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of the Social Research Foundation. She serves on the advisory board of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law and is a member of UK Lawyers for Israel. She has published widely on holocaust inversion, campus antisemitism, and antisemitism in British politics and gave evidence to the 2016 Chakrabarti Inquiry into Antisemitism and Other Forms of Racism in the Labour Party. In 2018 she was included in The Algemeiner's 5th annual "J100" list as one of the top 100 people "positively influencing Jewish life."

Jonathan G. Campbell was Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter (1990-1996) and Senior Lecturer in Biblical Studies & Judaism at Bristol University (1996-2017) before his retirement. He has a range of teaching and research experience in Jewish Studies, with his most recent work focusing on contemporary resurgent antisemitism. He co-organized (with Lesley Klaff) two Bristol–Sheffield Hallam Colloquia on Contemporary Antisemitism in 2015 and 2016.

Lesley Klaff is Senior Lecturer in Law at the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice, Sheffield Hallam University, and Professor of Law (Affiliate) at the University of Haifa. She is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism and an editorial board member of the International Journal of the Social Research Foundation. She serves on the advisory board of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights under Law and gives pro-bono assistance to UK Lawyers for Israel. She has published widely on contemporary antisemitism and was named in The Algemeiner's 5th annual "J100" list as one of the top 100 people "positively influencing Jewish life."

“The eleven chapters included in this important book explain… worrisome developments in impressively detailed and revealing ways. … Several common themes run through many of the chapters. One is that, despite the spread of virulent strains of anti-Jewish hostility, there is still a general reluctance within governments and the general public to regard antisemitism as a serious problem, one whose distinctive features need to be recognized if it is to be properly understood and effectively combatted. … Much of this book’s focus is on antisemitism within Great Britain, but the problems treated here are part of a global phenomenon, making Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Antisemitism an eye-opening collection of essays for anyone wishing to learn about today’s widespread and growing anti-Jewish hostility.”

— Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies