What does a 650-year-old cathedral in Brussels have to do with antisemitism today?

In this book talk co-presented with The Forward, Flora Cassen, Hartman Senior Fellow and Lavine Family Director of the Brandeis Center for Jewish Studies and the Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness, sits down with Forward journalist Arno Rosenfeld to discuss her new book Stained Glass: A Reflective History of Antisemitism. A blend of memoir, family history, and historical scholarship, the book traces Jewish life from medieval Europe through the Holocaust and into the present, beginning with an exploration of the stained-glass windows of Brussels’ Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, near where Flora grew up. In the conversation, she examines the recurring myths — host desecration, blood libel, financial conspiracy — that have outlasted every generation and asks what history teaches us about surviving and responding to hatred.