A Year Beyond Bondi: Symposium on Global Antisemitism

About Dr. Flora Cassen
Flora Cassen is the author of Stained Glass: a Reflective History of Antisemitism, which traces the long history of antisemitism and explores its resurgence today. She is the Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and the Director of the Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness at Brandeis University. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Originally from Antwerp, Belgium, Cassen earned her B.A. In History and Law from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, her M.A. In Comparative History from Brandeis, and her PhD in Hebrew and Judaic studies from New York University.

Her research explores the lives of Jews in Renaissance Italy, focusing on discriminatory practices and the construction of cultural identities — expanded more recently to contemporary analyses of antisemitism. She actively engages broader audiences through public-facing writing, teaching, and speaking. Her writing has been published in Haaretz, The Forward, Slate, Aeon, Sources and Smithsonian Magazine.