Doris Bergen Lecture

Please join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 as Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Toronto, presents “We have been lied to”: How Antisemitism, Anti-Black Racism, and Misogyny are Linked.

What is the relationship between anti-Black racism, antisemitism, sexism, and Naziism? Why did the white supremacists who marched at Charlottesville in 2017 to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee carry swastika flags and shout, “Jews will not replace us?” Why did the number of lynchings in the United States spike in 1933, the year Hitler came to power in Germany? Howard University professor Kelly Miller noted a “striking analogy” between “race prejudice” against Blacks in America and Jews in Germany, and other African American and Caribbean observers at the time expressed similar views. Why have their insights been largely forgotten? This talk addresses such questions by looking back at the history of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust and analyzing connections to our own times.