23/11/2025
Join us tomorrow for the Robert Wistrich Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony featuring Dmitry Shumsky's lecture, “Beyond Antisemitism: Rethinking Stalin’s Anti-Jewish Campaign, 1948–1953"
The Vidal Sassoon International Center (SICSA) was established in 1982 as an interdisciplinary research center
The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) was founded in 1982 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to an independent approach to understanding the phenomenon of antisemitism. It was the first globally oriented research center of its kind and has continued to provide for the last 30 years unique resources for rese
23/11/2025
Join us tomorrow for the Robert Wistrich Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony featuring Dmitry Shumsky's lecture, “Beyond Antisemitism: Rethinking Stalin’s Anti-Jewish Campaign, 1948–1953"
19/09/2025
Shana Tova from Manuela and SICSA's staff & fellows ✨
26/01/2025
Join us for the 7th Annual Robert Wistrich Memorial Lecture and Awards Ceremony on Monday, 27 January 2025, at 18:00 (reception at 17:30).
The lecture, "Conceptual Tangles in the Current Antisemitism Debate", will be delivered by Karma Ben Johanan from the Department of Comparative Religion.
After the lecture, we will hold the Wistrich Awards Ceremony in the Field of Antisemitism and Racism for 2024.
Join via Zoom: https://bit.ly/wistrich7.
20/01/2025
Join SICSA’s symposium this Wednesday, in-person or online, featuring Ekaterina Oleshkevich:
"Shared Spaces: Jewish Children and Their Christian Peers in Late Imperial Russia"
📅 Date: Wednesday, January 22
🔗 Zoom link: bit.ly/sicsa2201
25/12/2024
Happy Holidays from SICSA 💖✨
30/09/2024
Shana Tova from SICSA 🎗️💗
15/09/2024
🎉 Introducing the 2024 Robert Wistrich Award recipients!
https://bit.ly/47A4rcf
24/06/2024
Join us today in an event following Nina Valbousquet's book: "Lukewarm Souls. The Vatican and the Holocaust"
06/06/2024
Join SICSA's next seminar, in cooperation with the Program in Folklore and Folk Culture Studies, featuring a lecture of Marcia Kupfer.
RSVP at: [email protected].
26/04/2024
The Avraham Harman Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry is pleased to announce the three-year scholarship program of the Research Institute of Contemporary Jewry for outstanding doctoral students of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for the 2024/25 academic year. The aim of the scholarships is to enable outstanding doctoral students of Humanities [including education], Social Sciences, Law, or Social Work who research relevant subjects to devote most of their time and energy to research and study.
The deadline for applications is June 30th, 2024.
For further details and instructions: https://bit.ly/4bh3E0x.
25/04/2024
SICSA and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology invite you to a lecture of Prof. Chad Alan Goldberg.
For further details: https://bit.ly/3UgB2gR.
09/04/2024
The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, under the auspices of the Knapp Family Foundation will award this year up to four Wistrich Prizes to young scholars who have shown exceptional excellence, depth and originality in their work, and whose research focuses on the phenomena of antisemitism, racism, discrimination and different forms of persecution throughout history.