Robert S. Wistrich (1945–2015)
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Robert Wistrich is professor of modern Jewish history at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, visiting fellow at the Royal Institute of Advanced Studies in the Netherlands, and visiting professor of history at Brandeis and Harvard Universities. A regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, he mehr anzeigen is widely recognized as one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism, and is the author of many books. (Publisher Provided) Robert Wistrich is professor of Modern Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, & visiting professor at Harvard University. A regular contributor to the "Times Literary Supplement", he is one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of anti-Semitism. He is the author of many books, among them "Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred". (Publisher Provided) Robert Solomon Wistrich (April 7, 1945 - May 19, 2015) was the Erich Neuberger Professor of European and Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the head of the University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. According to Indiana University, Wistrich was "a leading scholar of the history of antisemitism." Wistrich was born in Lenger, in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on April 7, 1945. Wistrich received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1974. Between 1974 and 1980, he was Director of Research at the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library. Between 1991 and 1995, Wistrich was appointed the first holder of the Chair of Jewish Studies at University College London, in addition to his position at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.He was one of six scholars who sat on the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission from 1999 to 2001 to examine the wartime record of Pope Pius XII, with special reference to the Holocaust. From 2002, he was the director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, and edits its journal, Antisemitism International. Wistrich died of a heart attack on May 19, 2015 in Rome, Italy. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Socialism and the Jews : the dilemmas of assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary (1982) 4 Exemplare
The Shaping of Israeli Identity 2 Exemplare
Austria and the legacy of the Holocaust 1 Exemplar
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- Wistrich, Robert S.
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Wistrich, Robert Solomon
- Andere Namen
- á¹¾isá¹rits, Roberá¹
Wîsá¹rîṣ, Rôberá¹
Vistrih, Robert S. - Geburtstag
- 1945-04-07
- Todestag
- 2015-05-19
- Begräbnisort
- Cimetière du mont des Répits , Israël
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- Israel
Großbritannien - Geburtsort
- Lenger, Kasachstan
- Sterbeort
- Rom, Italien
- Wohnorte
- Kazakhstan
Poland
Großbritannien
Israel - Ausbildung
- Stanford University
University of Cambridge (Queens College, BA ∙ MA)
University of London (PhD) - Berufe
- Historiker
Antisemitismusforscher - Organisationen
- Hebrew University
Institute of Contemporary History, London
Wiener Holocaust Library - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- British Academy (Research Fellow)
- Kurzbiographie
- Robert Wistrich was born to a Polish Jewish family in Lenger, Kazakhstan (then the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic). His parents Sabina (Silbiger) and Jakob Wistreich, a doctor, had fled east in 1939 to escape the German invasion in World War II; however, they found Soviet rule to be little better. In 1942, Wistrich's father was imprisoned twice by the Soviet secret police. After the war ended, Robert and his parents were sent back to Poland. They soon fled to France and then to the UK. At age 17, Wistrich won a scholarship to study history at Cambridge University. He graduated in 1966 with a BA (Hons), which was raised to a MA degree in 1969. At Cambridge, he founded and co-edited Circuit, a literary and arts magazine. He also studied at Stanford University in California and for 16 months in Israel. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London in 1974. That year, he was named Director of Research at the Institute of Contemporary History and the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide in London, at that time the largest research library of its kind in Europe. In 1982, he received tenure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he held the Neuberger chair for modern European history. He was also appointed a Research Fellow at the British Academy. In his career, Prof. Wistrich published 29 books, including Socialism and the Jews (1985), which won the joint award of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University and the American Jewish Committee. His 1989 book The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph received the Austrian State Prize in History. His monumental study Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (1991) won the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize in the UK and was the basis for "The Longest Hatred," a three-hour British-American TV documentary mini-series shown on public television in the USA. In 1993, he also scripted Good Morning, Mr. Hitler, an award-winning documentary commissioned by the UK's Channel 4 on Nazi art. In 1991, Prof. Wistrich became the first holder of the Chair of Jewish Studies at University College London. He also wrote dramas for BBC Radio and Kol Israel on the lives of historical figures ranging from Leon Trotsky to Theodor Herzl. In 2003, he acted as chief historical consultant for the BBC documentary, "Blaming the Jews," and in 2006 he was the academic advisor for the film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West.
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