Modern anti-Semites, who have found that Nazi excesses have led to discreditation of racialism, now fall back “on the long outworn economic, nationalist or religious arguments” in pursuit of Jew baiting, Dr. Salo W. Baron, professor of Jewish history at Columbia University, declared here today.
Dr. Baron was one of the 10 experts on various aspects of anti-Semitism who presented papers on anti-Semitism since World War II at a meeting held today by the Conference on Jewish Social Studies. More than 150 leading authorities in the field participated in panel discussions on the subject, held at the Institute of Human Relations here. Dr. Israel S. Wechsler presided.
As a result of today’s sessions, Dr. Wechsler announced, the papers presented will be published as Volume Two of “Essays on Anti-Semitism.” The first volume was issued before World War II.
Other scholars who discussed the theological approaches to anti-Semitism, the tactics in the struggle against anti-Semitism, the situation in West Germany and Austria, and other aspects of the problem, included Dr. A. Roy Eckardt, professor of religion at Lehigh University; Dr. Abraham G. Duker, president of the College of Jewish Studies, Chicago; and Kurt Grossman, consultant on German-Austrian Affairs to the Jewish Agency.
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