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James Loeffler<\/strong>, \u201cThe Crime of Menticide: Antisemitism and Hate Speech in American Law\u201d<\/p>\n

Register for Zoom meeting<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can law stem hate speech without violating the First Amendment? In 1977, a group of Holocaust survivors from Skokie, Illinois filed a class action lawsuit to stop a planned neo-Nazi march by alleging menticide\u2014the psychological equivalent of genocide. Nazi words and symbols constituted a form of violence, they claimed, not constitutionally protected speech. In this lecture, historian James Loeffler reconstructs this curious episode and discusses its larger implications for the contemporary debate over antisemitism and free speech in American law.<\/p>\n

James Loeffler<\/strong>\u00a0is Felix Posen Professor of Jewish History at Johns Hopkins University, and co-editor of the\u00a0Association for Jewish Studies Review<\/em>. His writings include two award-winning books\u00a0Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Most Musical Nation: Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire<\/em>, and two edited volumes,\u00a0The Law of Strangers: Jewish Lawyers and International Law in the Twentieth Century and A Jew in the Street: New Views on European Jewish History<\/em>. He is current writing a book about antisemitism and the First Amendment in postwar America, which grew out of his\u00a0Atlantic\u00a0<\/em>magazine article about his coverage of the trial of the White Supremacist organizers of the 2017 attack on Charlottesville.<\/p>\n

Cosponsored by 51ÁÔÆæ’s Center for 21st<\/sup> Century Studies; Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; History Department; and Honors College.<\/p>\n

Download the event flyer<\/a><\/strong>. (PDF)<\/p>\n

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