{{Short description|Canadian historian}} '''Catherine Chatterley''' is a Canadian historian, specializing in the study of modern European history, the Holocaust, and research on antisemitism,<ref>[http://www.cjnews.com/canada/academics-dissect-modern-antisemitism Academics dissect modern antisemitism]. ''The Canadian Jewish News'', 24 May 2012. Retrieved 22 August 2012.</ref> and is the founding director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA). Chatterley is Editor-in-Chief of ''Antisemitism Studies'',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Antisemitism Studies |url=http://antisemitismstudies.com/ |access-date=2026-04-01 |website=Antisemitism Studies |language=en}}</ref> a journal devoted to the study of antisemitism published by Indiana University Press. Chatterley appeared in the documentary called ''Unmasked: Judeophobia'' (2011), where she was one of the scholars interviewed.<ref name=unmasked>[http://www.unmaskedthemovie.com/about_us/featured_commentators.html?id=559 Featured Commentator: Catherine Chatterley, PhD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301124136/http://www.unmaskedthemovie.com/about_us/featured_commentators.html?id=559 |date=2014-03-01 }}. ''Unmasked: Judeophobia''. Retrieved 25 August 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2041&sec=4 Unmasking Rising Global Antisemitism: CISA's Screening of Gloria Greenfield's Unmasked:Judeophobia and the Threat to Civilization] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302163138/http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2041&sec=4 |date=2014-03-02 }}. Winnipeg Jewish Review, 23 January 2012. Retrieved 25 August 2012.</ref> That same year, she was invited as an expert scholar to participate in the Canadian All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Antisemitism.
Her undergraduate studies included European history and Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at the University of Manitoba, European Intellectual History at Concordia University (Montreal), followed by a doctorate in Modern European and Jewish History, and German-Jewish Literature, which she completed at The University of Chicago under the direction of Moishe Postone and Michael Geyer.
Syracuse University Press published her first book, ''Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz'', in their series on Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust, edited by Steven T. Katz. ''Disenchantment'' was named a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Alongside Juan Asensio in France and Ricardo Gil Soeiro in Portugal, Chatterley is recognized as a leading scholar of George Steiner, an internationally renowned cultural critic, and has published two chapters in international collections about his work, both edited by Ricardo Gil Soeiro. Steiner died on February 3, 2020, and Chatterley wrote an obituary for the Times of Israel.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chatterley |first1=Catherine |title=George Steiner: Remembrancer |url=https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/george-steiner-remembrancer/ |website=Times of Israel |accessdate=25 June 2020}}</ref>
From 2002 to 2008 Chatterley taught history at the University of Winnipeg and from 2007 to 2018 at the University of Manitoba.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Manitoba - Faculty of Arts - History - Catherine Chatterley |url=http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/history/members/chatterley.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026110132/http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/history/members/chatterley.html |archive-date=2012-10-26 |access-date=2026-04-01 |website=umanitoba.ca}}</ref>
==Founding of CISA== Chatterley created the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA) in the summer of 2010 to "help facilitate the scholarly study of antisemitism and to educate Canadians about the phenomenon in its classical and contemporary forms."<ref>{{cite news|last=Rhonda|first=Spivak|title=CISA Announces Its First Academic Year of Programming|url=http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=1535&sec=2&title=CISA_ANNOUNCES_ITS_FIRST_YEAR_OF_PROGRAMMING:_OBAMA%27S_SPECIAL_ENVOY_IS_COMING_TO_THE_PEG!|accessdate=December 30, 2011|newspaper=Winnipeg Jewish Review|date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> CISA is the first national academic institution in Canada dedicated to the scholarly study of a subject that is usually addressed by political advocacy organizations. It is the only such institution in the world founded by a non-Jewish scholar.<ref>{{cite news|last=Spivak|first=Rhonda|title=Wiesel to act as honorary chair of antisemitism institute|url=http://thecjn.ca/node/86962|accessdate=December 30, 2011|newspaper=Canadian Jewish News|date=December 23, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503011519/http://thecjn.ca/node/86962|archivedate=May 3, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Chisvin|first=Sharon|title=Local Institute to Combat Antisemitism|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/fyi/local-institute-to-combat-anti-semitism-118699954.html|accessdate=December 30, 2011|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|date=March 26, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Hepburn|first=Ben|title=Canadian Antisemitism Institute Aims to Fill Worldwide Void|url=https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1175809--canadian-anti-semitism-institute-aims-to-fill-worldwide-void|accessdate=May 22, 2012|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=May 9, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513114157/https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1175809--canadian-anti-semitism-institute-aims-to-fill-worldwide-void|archive-date=2012-05-13}}</ref> The Institute sponsors the leading academic periodical on the subject. ''Antisemitism Studies'' is published by Indiana University Press and Chatterley is Editor-in-Chief.<ref name=":0" />
==Involvement in public debates== Chatterley was involved in the public debate over the place of a permanent Holocaust gallery proposed for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), scheduled to open in Winnipeg in September 2014.<ref name=opposition>[http://defendinghistory.com/catherine-chatterley-leads-opposition-to-holocaust-obfuscationists-campaign-in-canada/14065 Catherine Chatterley leads Opposition to Holocaust Obfuscation campaign in Canada]. Defending History, 7 April 2011. Retrieved 22 August 2012.</ref> In an editorial criticizing the attempt to remove the proposed Holocaust gallery from the museum, she stated, "the problem with the CMHR is it is mired in the politics of Canadian ethnic identity rather than rooted in the scholarly study of genocide, Holocaust, and human rights. Subjective feelings are influencing content and design choices rather than objective historical and legal reality and this does not bode well for the international reputation of this institution." This article also described the offensive UCCLA postcard campaign using Orwellian imagery to target supporters of the Holocaust gallery, depicting them as pigs. Chatterley stated unequivocally, "the fact that this kind of postcard was distributed in Canada in 2011, without shame or conscience, by an organization that claims to protect civil liberties, is astonishing. This alone demonstrates the clear need for this museum, its permanent Holocaust gallery, and for the Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism."<ref name=opposition /><ref>{{cite news|last=Chatterley|first=Catherine|title=The War Against the Holocaust|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/westview/the-war-against-the-holocaust-119110699.html|accessdate=December 30, 2011|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|date=April 2, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Moses|first=Dirk|title=The Canadian Museum for Human Rights: the 'uniqueness of the Holocaust' and the question of genocide|journal=Journal of Genocide Research|date=May 2012|volume=14|issue=2|pages=215–238|doi=10.1080/14623528.2012.677762}}<!--|accessdate=May 22, 2012--></ref> In 2013, Chatterley interviewed the former curator of the Holocaust gallery and provided the first concrete published information about the content of the CMHR for the public.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chatterley|first=Chatterley|title=Dr. Catherine Chatterley Interviews CMHR About Content Of Holocaust Gallery|url=http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3442&sec=1&title=MUST_READ--EXCLUSIVE_INTERVIEW:_DR._CATHERINE_CHATTERLEY_INTERVIEWS_CMHR_ABOUT_CONTENT_OF_HOLOCAUST_GALLERY|publisher=Winnipeg Jewish Review|accessdate=February 21, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302171230/http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=3442&sec=1&title=MUST_READ--EXCLUSIVE_INTERVIEW%3A_DR._CATHERINE_CHATTERLEY_INTERVIEWS_CMHR_ABOUT_CONTENT_OF_HOLOCAUST_GALLERY|archivedate=March 2, 2014}}</ref> Holocaust and Genocide Studies published her study of the conflicts and controversies at the CMHR, entitled "Canada's Struggle with Holocaust Memorialization: The War Museum Controversy, Ethnic Identity Politics, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights."
As a scholar of German history and the Holocaust, Chatterley was consulted in 2014 about the problem of stolen art in Canadian museum collections.<ref>{{cite news|last=Rollason|first=Kevin|title=Art Sleuths on Nazi Trail|url=http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/art-sleuths-on-nazi-trail-244172801.html|accessdate=February 12, 2014|newspaper=Winnipeg Free Press|date=February 7, 2014}}</ref> Heritage Canada has sponsored the Holocaust-era Provenance Research and Best-Practice Guidelines Project, through which they investigated six art galleries in Canada including the Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Chatterley has also critiqued comments made by religion writer Karen Armstrong in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo and Kosher Grocery murders in Paris. In a Dutch interview, Armstrong claimed that the murders of French Jews by the Hebdo terrorists had nothing to do with antisemitism: "The supermarket attack in Paris was about Palestine, about ISIS. It had nothing to do with antisemitism; many of them are Semites themselves. But they attempt to conquer Palestine and we're not talking about that. We're too implicated and we don't know what to do with it."<ref>{{cite web|first=Lisette |last=Thooft |title=Karen Armstrong: 'There is Nothing in the Islam More Violent Than Christianity'|url=http://www.nieuwwij.nl/english/karen-armstrong-nothing-islam-violent-christianity/|publisher=www.nieuwwij.nl|accessdate=January 28, 2015}}</ref> In response, Chatterley wrote a critical op-ed for The Huffington Post correcting her historical and conceptual errors and arguing that the murders of Jews in Paris had everything to do with antisemitism.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Chatterley|first1=Catherine|title=Don't Say the Paris Supermarket Attack Had Nothing To Do With Antisemitism|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/catherine-chatterley/paris-shooting-_b_6520680.html|accessdate=January 27, 2015|publisher=The Huffington Post|date=January 27, 2015}}</ref>
== Publications == *"Canada's Struggle with Holocaust Memorialization: The War Museum Controversy, Ethnic Identity Politics, and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights," ''Holocaust and Genocide Studies'' (2015) 29 (2): 189-211. *''Disenchantment: The Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz'' (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2011)<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Disenchantment George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization after Auschwitz BUY DIRECT from Syracuse University Press by Catherine D. Chatterley |url=http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2011/disenchantment.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427121525/http://www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu/spring-2011/disenchantment.html |archive-date=2012-04-27 |access-date=2026-04-01 |website=www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu |language=en}}</ref> *"The Antisemitic Imagination," in ''Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity'', edited by Charles Asher Small (Leiden: Brill, 2013) *"Language, Humanity, and the Holocaust: The Steinerian Triad," in ''The Wounds of Possibility: Essays on George Steiner'', edited by Ricardo Gil Soeiro (UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012) *"We Come After: The Holocaust in Steinerian Thought, 1952-1971," in ''O Pensamento Tornado Danca. Estudos em Torno do Pensamento de George Steiner'', edited by Ricardo Gil Soeiro (Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2009): 96-113. *Review of Derek Penslar, "Jews and the Military: A History," ''American Historical Review'' (2014) 119 (4): 1207-1209. *Review of Alvin Rosenfeld, editor, "Resurgent Antisemitism: Global Perspectives," Jewish Political Studies Review (Spring 5773/2013), Volume 25, Numbers 1 & 2.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-27 |title=A Notable Contribution to Anti-Semitism Studies |url=https://spme.org/book-reviews/a-notable-contribution-to-anti-semitism-studies/ |access-date=2026-04-01 |website=SPME |language=en-US}}</ref> *Review of Ruth Klein, editor, "Nazi Germany, Canadian Responses: Confronting Antisemitism in the Shadow of War," Journal for the Study of Antisemitism (December 2012): 747-751.<ref>http://jsantisemitism.org/images/journals/4-2/reviews/RevChatterly.pdf{{Dead link|date=April 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> *Review of Alon Confino, "Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History," The Hedgehog Review (Summer 2007): 75-78.
Her book, ''Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz'', is an intellectual biography of the literary critic.<ref name=":1" /> It focuses on his neglected writings on the Holocaust and antisemitism, and explains how and when the Holocaust enters Western consciousness in the decades after World War II.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jewish Book Council|url=http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/2011-national-jewish-book-award-winners|work=2011 National Jewish Book Awards|accessdate=January 10, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113093359/http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/2011-national-jewish-book-award-winners|archive-date=January 13, 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Bamberger|first=W. C.|title=Review of Disenchantment George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization after Auschwitz|url=http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2012spring/steiner.php|publisher=Raintaxi Review of Books|accessdate=May 22, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513104152/http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2012spring/steiner.php|archivedate=May 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Spicer|first=Kevin P.|title=SOME BUILT IT; ALMOST ALL LET IT BE: Review of Chatterley and Lipstadt|journal=The Review of Politics|year=2012|volume=74|issue=1|pages=158–164|doi=10.1017/s0034670512000162}}<!--|accessdate=May 22, 2012--></ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Steiman|first=Lionel|title=Review of Disenchantment|url=http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2082&sec=2|accessdate=May 22, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302164306/http://www.winnipegjewishreview.com/article_detail.cfm?id=2082&sec=2|archivedate=March 2, 2014}}</ref>
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== External links == *[http://www.catherinechatterley.com/ Catherine Chatterley's website] *[http://canisa.org/ Canadian Institute for the Study of Antisemitism (CISA)]
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