Historian @JohnsHopkins | Newest book: Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight over Free Speech in Modern America (Metropolitan/Henry Holt, Summer 2026)
DC / Baltimore
Joined October 2015
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For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful Tool nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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Here’s what’s happening at the Center for Jewish History this week and beyond.
Coming up Wednesday
Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and Free Speech in America, Past and Present
Jim Loeffler in conversation with @NewYorker staff writer Emma Green
🗓️ Wed, Oct 21 | 7 PM | 15 W. 16th St., New York
🏛️ Cosponsored by the Center for Jewish History, the American Jewish Historical Society, and the Shalom Hartman Institute
Exhibits (5 currently open)
▪️ Jews Are Magic: Occult Practices from Palmistry to Professional Psychics, presented by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
▪️ Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of Art by Steve Marcus, co-presented by YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and the Center for Jewish History
▪️ Hidden in Plain Sight: The Secret Photo Album of Theresienstadt, presented by the Leo Baeck Institute in the Goldsmith Gallery
▪️ The Jack Kirby Way: How a Boy from the Lower East Side Became the King of Comics, presented by the American Jewish Historical Society in partnership with the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center
▪️ All We Have Standing Between Us: 250 Years of Jews and American Democracy, presented by the American Jewish Historical Society, Center for Jewish History, and Yeshiva University Museum
Upcoming Programs 🗓️
▪️ Mon, Nov 2, 7 PM ET: Truth on Trial: 80 Years After Nuremberg with Natalie Livingstone and Nadav Eyal, moderated by Gavriel Rosenfeld. Presented by the Center for Jewish History and UJA
▪️ Sun, Nov 8, 10 AM-4 PM: Jews and American Democracy: 250 Years of Debate. Presented by the Center for Jewish History and the American Jewish Historical Society
▪️ Wed, Nov 11, 6:30 PM ET: Delivering Knowledge with Jordan Katz and Iris Idelson-Shein. Presented by the Center for Jewish History and the Leo Baeck Institute
▪️ Wed, Nov 18, 7 PM ET (live on Zoom): The Interesting Things I Learned Painting My DNA with Jarrett Ross. Presented by the Center for Jewish History
📍 Sign up at programs.cjh.org or in the link in bio!
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Princeton tomorrow bobst.princeton.edu/events/a…
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"Gutting anti-discrimination policies for most minority groups while supercharging them for Jews is hypocritical. The hypocrisy is the point. It turns civil rights law into a political protection racket, a tool with which to attack higher education and other perceived enemies." -@Jbloeffler nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…
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Fantastic piece by @Jbloeffler —you won’t read anything more insightful than this on the topic.
For Trump, Jews Are Proving to Be a Very Useful Tool nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini… via @NYTOpinion
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Read @jbloeffler “debates about Jews are never just about Jews. They are the seismographs of a society’s deeper tremors: its fears of difference, its contested visions of nationhood.” nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opini…
Why This Historian Thinks 'We're in a Very Dangerous Moment' for American Jews haaretz.com/life/books/2026-…
"Today’s college students seek open intellectual environments where they can engage complex, hard questions without hostility or dogma. They do not want to be spoon-fed propaganda — for or against Israel; they want to pursue the truth and acquire critical analysis skills." Part of my response to a pseudo-academic study smearing Jewish Studies. jewishtimes.com/study-says-a…
It was never a good idea to honor Galliano. nytimes.com/2026/08/31/style…
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“Since Charlottesville, Jews have been both demonized and tokenized across the political spectrum,” @Jbloeffler argues. “Building a way forward requires de-exceptionalizing anti-Semitism”: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
As launch week ends, sharing some upcoming events, starting later this weekend: jamesloeffler.com/events/
Talking free speech exceptions -- Palestine, Israel, antisemitism -- next week @FordhamJS @FordhamNYC @FordhamLaw w/ Magda Teter and Ethan Lieb In-person and zoom: forever.fordham.edu/s/1362/1…
Video is now up from my DC book launch event @PoliticsProse. You can hear me discuss the book w/ @FranklinFoer and tackle related questions of today about antisemitism v. anti-zionism, the lessons of history, and the future of liberalism. youtube.com/live/gPNnTH1e1C8
Tomorrow night to mark pub. date for #exceptionalhatred I'll be speaking live and livestream @PoliticsProse 7PM ET w/ @FranklinFoer politics-prose.com/james-loe…
James Loeffler retweeted
“Since Charlottesville, Jews have been both demonized and tokenized across the political spectrum,” @Jbloeffler argues. “Building a way forward requires de-exceptionalizing anti-Semitism”: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
James Loeffler retweeted
“Since Charlottesville, Jews have been both demonized and tokenized across the political spectrum,” @Jbloeffler argues. “Building a way forward requires de-exceptionalizing anti-Semitism”: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
Chicago is the beating heart of the first 2/3 of #exceptionalhatred, so it’s great to get a generous review from @Suntimes @NeilSteinberg (though he’d like a little less Skokie in the story!)
chicago.suntimes.com/columni…
