Strangers at Home: The American Tradition of Antisemitism
Summary
Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 5 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Pamela Nadell.
Meet The Guest
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Pamela Nadell
Professor Pamela Nadell holds the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History at American University. Her new book, Antisemitism, an American Tradition (W.W. Norton, October 2025), won the National Jewish Award in American Jewish Studies. The Wall Street Journal named it to its October list of “books to read.” Hadassah Magazine and Religion News Service named it to lists of the best books of 2025.
Nadell’s last book, America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, (W.W. Norton, 2019), won the National Jewish Book Award’s Everett Family Foundation “Book of the Year” and was translated into Hebrew A past president of the Association for Jewish Studies, Nadell is a member of the Advisory Board planning the rebuild of Pittsburgh’s The Tree of Life. However, to her chagrin, she may best be known for testifying before Congress in the hearing with the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania.
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