This course examines how great works of Western art and literature have carried, normalized, and aestheticized antisemitic ideas across centuries. Rather than simply “canceling” difficult works from the past, students will learn to engage them critically, appreciating their artistic power while confronting the machinery of Jew-hatred embedded within them. The course begins with broader debates over cancel culture, historical sanitization, and the ethics of encountering offensive cultural artifacts. Students will then study representations of Jews in works by figures such as Caravaggio, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wagner, considering how these portrayals turned Jews into jokes, villains, symbols, or threats. Ultimately, the course asks how historic cultural antisemitism continues to echo in contemporary forms of Jew-hatred, including the visual and narrative scripts that circulate today in digital culture.