Human Rights, Antisemitism, And International Politics

Join us for a lecture with Professor Wistrich as he discusses the historical and international dimensions of antisemitism.
Robert Solomon Wistrich holds the Neuberger chair for Modern European History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is head of its International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. He is the author and editor of 24 books, several of which have won international awards. These include Socialism and the Jews (Oxford University Press, 1982), The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph (OUP, 1989) which won the Austrian State Prize for Danubian History and Antisemitism, the Longest Hatred (Pantheon, 1992) which received the H.H. Wingate Prize for non-fiction in the UK. It was also the basis for the PBS film documentary which Professor Wistrich scripted and co-edited. Among his recent books are: Hitler and the Holocaust (Random House, 2001) and the edited volume Nietzsche. Godfather of fascism? (Princeton, 2002). Between 1999 and 2001 Professor Wistrich was one of six scholars who were appointed to an international Catholic-Jewish historical commission to examine the wartime record of Pope Pius the XII. More recently, in June 2003, he initiated and acted as Chief Historical Advisor for a BBC film documentary on contemporary Muslim antisemitism, entitled "Blaming the Jews". Since 2003, he has edited the research journal Antisemitism International and the Posen Papers in Contemporary Antisemitism. In 2007 he published Laboratory of World Destruction, Germans and Jews in Central Europe (University of Nebraska Press). His forthcoming book to be published by Random House in 2009 is a major study of the new antisemitism which has developed around the world from 1945 to the present.
Location: Mortara Building Mortara Center