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The power of anti-Semitic images is not a new development of social media, but their adaptation, especially to popular culture, strengthens their influence. Often indistinguishable, traditional forms of prejudice against Jews are mixed with discrimination against the Jewish state. Visualisations play a central role, as they combine emotional and cognitive elements and usually elude rational discourse.
In this lecture, the contemporary historian Prof. Dr. Frank Stern, known for the Vienna Jewish Film Club in the Metro Kinokulturhaus and numerous film lectures, will analyse anti-Semitic film works of the 21st century and visualise them by means of exemplary film excerpts.
Referring to the most (in-)famous Nazi propaganda movie, this documentary film aims to analyse the very core of antisemitism: the so-called “Jewish world conspiracy”. The distribution of these myths in the time of social media is easier than ever,...
This coming-of-age comedy follows the concept of neighborhood in the Kurdish-Syrian border village of a little boy named Sero. When a fanatic teacher from Aleppo arrives to “arabize” the village, the boy’s friendship with his beloved Jewish neighb...
Panel discussion in cooperation with Jüdische österreichische Hochschüler:innen (JöH) With their much-discussed short film Maseltov Cocktail, Arkadij Khaet and Mickey Paatzsch have turned the representation of young Jews in film culture on its hea...
