This Jewish Moment: An Oral History of the Diaspora after October 7

On October 7, 2023, some 6,000 Gazans—Hamas terrorists and ordinary civilians—crossed into Israel, murdering and raping 1,200 people and kidnapping 250 more. This modern pogrom constituted the largest single-day loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. For Israel it was a brutal wake-up call. For the Jewish diaspora, it unleashed a different trauma: a tsunami of antisemitism—violence, harassment, vandalism, boycotts, cancellations, and social and professional targeting—that rapidly altered ...