Combating Antisemitism

A four-year joint project based at Freie Universität Berlin is set to receive support within the funding line "Current Dynamics and Challenges of Antisemitism". The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has confirmed that it will be funding a four-year project at Freie Universität Berlin to tackle antisemitism. The project titled "Christian Characteristics of Contemporary Antisemitism" - which will receive financial support via the "Current Dynamics and Challenges of Antisemitism" funding line - will be carried out in cooperation with the Georg Eckert Institute and the Protestant Academies in Germany. It is one of ten joint projects across Germany to receive such funding. Professor Rainer Kampling at the Department of History and Cultural Studies is the project lead and overall coordinator. The researchers' work will primarily involve identifying and analyzing specifically Christian religious elements of antisemitism, and how these have manifested themselves in the past and present. Their goal will be to make a significant contribution to disseminating the research results among scientific and academic circles, primary and secondary schools, and adult education outlets by means of an all-encompassing knowledge transfer concept.