- Robert S. Wistrich
Robert Solomon Wistrich (born 1945) is the Neuburger Professor of European and
Jewish history at theHebrew University of Jerusalem , and the head of the University'sVidal Sassoon International Center for the Study ofAnti-Semitism .Early life
Wistrich was born in Lenger,
Kazakhstan in 1945. [https://www.nias.knaw.nl:10051/en/oudfellows/research_group_1999_2000/summaries_99_00/robert_wistrich/ Robert Wistrich] , Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences website, accessed August 21, 2006.] His parents were leftist Polish Jews who moved toLviv in 1940 to escape rampant anti-Semitism; however, they foundSoviet totalitarianism little better. In 1942 they moved to Kazakhstan, where Wistrich's father was imprisoned twice by theNKVD . [ [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/wistrich.htm "The Jedwabne Affair"] , TheStephen Roth Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Racism,Tel Aviv University , accessed August 21, 2006.]Professional career
Wistrich received his
Ph.D. from theUniversity of London , and is the author and editor of 23 books, including "Socialism and the Jews" (1982); "The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph" (1989), which won the Austrian State Prize for Danubian History; and "Antisemitism, the Longest Hatred" (1992), which was awarded the H. H. Wingate Prize for non-fiction in theUK .He was one of six scholars who sat on an international Catholic-
Jew ish historical commission from 1999 to 2001 to examine the wartime record ofPope Pius XII . [ [http://www.acpr.org.il/english-nativ/authors/wistrich-r.htm "Robert Wistrich"] , NATIV online, retrieved August 20, 2006.]Works
elected books
*"Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky". Barnes & Noble Books, 1976. ISBN 0-06-497806-0
*"The Left Against Zion".Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 1979. ISBN 0-85303-199-1
*"Socialism and the Jews". Oxford University Press, 1982.
*"Trotsky: Fate of a Revolutionary". Stein & Day, 1982. ISBN 0-8128-2774-0
*"The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph". Oxford University Press, 1989.
*"Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity". Routledge, 1990. ISBN 0-415-04233-X
*"Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the Contemporary World". New York University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8147-9237-5
*"Antisemitism, the Longest Hatred". Pantheon, 1992.
*"Who's Who in Nazi Germany". Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-12723-8
*"Terms of Survival". Routledge, 1995. ISBN 0-415-10056-9
*"Weekend in Munich: Art, Propaganda and Terror in the Third Reich" (with Luke Holland). Trafalgar Square, 1996. ISBN 1-85793-318-4
*"Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia". Routledge, 1999. ISBN 90-5702-497-7
*"Hitler and the Holocaust". Random House, 2001.
*"Nietzsche: Godfather of Fascism?" Princeton, 2002.
* "Islamic Judeophobia: An Existential Threat", inMuhammad's Monsters , Balfour Books, 2004, editorDavid Bukay .elected papers
*PDFlink| [http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/WistrichAntisemitism.pdf "Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger"] |3.48 MiB ,
American Jewish Committee , 2002.
*PDFlink| [http://www.nationalinterest.org/Media/PublicationsArticles/Wistrich%2059-70.pdf "The Old-New Anti-Semitism"] , "The National Interest ", Number 72, Summer 2003.
**also [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_72/ai_105369898/print "The Old-New Anti-Semitism"] .
* [http://www.acpr.org.il/english-nativ/02-issue/wistrich-2.htm "Islamic Judeophobia: An Existential Threat"] , NATIV online, Volume 2, 2004.
* [http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-wistrich-f04.htm "Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism"] , Jewish Political Studies Review 16:3-4, Fall 2004.
*PDFlink| [http://www.ajc.org/atf/cf/%7B42D75369-D582-4380-8395-D25925B85EAF%7D/wistrich.pdf "European Anti-Semitism Reinvents Itself"] |2.62 MiB , American Jewish Committee, 2005.
* [http://www.tau.ac.il/Anti-Semitism/asw2001-2/wistrich.htm "The Jedwabne Affair"] , TheStephen Roth Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Racism,Tel Aviv University .Notes
Further reading
*Gerstenfeld, Manfred. [http://www.jcpa.org/phas/phas-25.htm "Something rotten in the State of Europe: Anti-Semitism as a Civilizational Pathology"] , an interview with Robert Wistrich,
Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs , October 1, 2004.
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3234264.stm#Robert "Viewpoints: Anti-Semitism and Europe"] , includes comment from Robert Wistrich, BBC, December 3, 2003.
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