Geertz (Clifford) Archives

On the Academic Calls to Boycott Israel, Part II

The Jewish Question and the debate over the Israeli academy

September 10, 2015 • by Netta van Vliet

After summarizing Israel’s siege of the Gaza Strip and dispossession of Palestinians from land and livelihood, the pro-boycott petition’s signatories declare: “As employees in institutions of higher learning, we have a particular responsibility to oppose Israel’s widespread and systematic violations of the right to ...

Hannah and Me: Understanding Politics in Dark Times

March 4, 2015 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Contrary to the suggestion of my informal title, I did not study with Hannah Arendt, nor were we ever colleagues, although I missed both experiences only by a bit. I was a graduate student in the early 1970s in one of the universities where she last taught, the University of ...

Have Europeans Learned from the 20th Century for the 21st?

February 28, 2014 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

This is a lightly abridged version of the keynote address to the conference of the Europe for Citizens Forum in Brussels on January 28th, 2014. Goldfarb was asked to address the question of the title. Siobhan Kattago, Irit Dekel, and Anna Lisa Tota also contributed to the ...

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