Since the election of Donald Trump and the sharp spike in antisemitic vandalism, violence, and murder, I have been reflecting on American Jewish historiography and the relationship of past antisemitic attitudes to what we are seeing at present.  My reflections arise from my training as a legal historian.  In my field, most of the work that has been done on the effects of antisemitism pertains to the difficulties Jewish lawyers faced when they sought to join the legal profession and in particular were denied employment or partnership with elite urban law firms beginning in the early part of the twentieth Read more