Upcoming Book: Antisemitism, an American Tradition
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Pamela Nadell’s new book Antisemitism, an American Tradition investigates the dark history of how this hate threaded across the American past from colonial times to today. Already acclaimed as “the book that the world needs now,” Antisemitism, an American Tradition, will be published on October 14, 2025 (W.W. Norton).
Advance Praise
“This is the book that the world needs now, a bracing narrative of dark chapters from America’s past–history which continues to stalk the nation. Nadell writes with command and a detective’s sense for where buried episodes of antisemitism can be found.”
― Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden’s White House and the Struggle for America’s Future
“Pamela S. Nadell understands that ‘antisemitism was and remains a powerful American tradition.’ In this timely and comprehensive book, she courageously bares that tradition, unveiling a darker side of American Jewish history that has, for far too long, lain hidden from view.”
― Jonathan D. Sarna, author of American Judaism
“No book could be more timely than Pamela Nadell’s magisterial history of American antisemitism. Reading her meticulous account of over two centuries of anti-Jewish rhetoric, agitation, and physical violence helps us to better understand the nature of today’s antisemitism.”
― Michael Brenner, author of In Hitler’s Munich
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About Me
Acclaimed lecturer and teacher, Professor Pamela Nadell is the author of America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award—Jewish Book of the Year.
She is currently writing Antisemitism, an American Tradition and was the fourth witness in that now infamous Congressional hearing with the university presidents.
Videos
Professor Pamela Nadell testifying before Congress on the history of antisemitism and the US National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism on December 5, 2023.
American University’s Jewish Studies Program published Understanding Antisemitism: A Guide for the American University Community, led by lead author Pamela Nadell.
America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, was the winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award—Jewish Book of the Year.
May 18, 2025 “Columbia and Harvard” Jews and Elite Universities Symposium at Center for Jewish History, New York City
May 18, 2025 “Understanding Contemporary Antisemitism” Hosted by Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, Evanston, IL – Zoom Conference
June 5, 2025 “2 Different Societies, 2 Different Approaches” at the French-American Forum on Antisemitism, Paris, France
June 23, 2025 “American Antisemitism—Historical and Contemporary” at George Washington University, Washington, DC
August 3-7, 2025 “America’s Jewish Women” and “Antisemitism, an American Tradition” Guest Speaker at the Everett Jewish Life Center, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY
September 29, 2025 The 2nd Annual Beinner Symposium at the Center for Jewish History, New York City