Robert S. Wistrich

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Robert S. Wistrich (2013)

Robert Solomon Wistrich (born April 7, 1945 in Lenger , South Kazakhstan , Kazakh SSR ; died May 19, 2015 in Rome ) was a British-Israeli historian and anti-Semitism researcher of Polish origin. He was "Neuburger Professor of European History and Jewish History" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism .

Life

Wistrich's grandparents were Jewish citizens in Krakow, which was ruled by the Kuk monarchy . His parents - his father was a doctor - experienced the beginning of World War II in Polish Lviv , in 1939 from the Soviet Union was occupied, and soon after they were like other Poles in gulags in the Soviet Union deported . In Kazakhstan , where Robert was born, his father was imprisoned twice by the NKVD . After the end of the Second World War, the family was able to return to Poland; because of anti-Semitism in Poland , they emigrated via France to Great Britain , where Wistrich attended school. He began studying history at Queens' College of the University of Cambridge , which he with the 1969 MA graduated, followed by a year of study in Israel joined.

Wistrich received his doctorate from the University of London in 1974 and was Research Director at the University's Institute of Contemporary History and at the Wiener Library until 1980 . In 1982 he was appointed to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1991 to 1995 he was also a professor of Jewish Studies at University College London . In 1999 he was part of the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission of three Catholics and three Jews, the resulting 1963-1981 files Edition et Actes documents du Saint-Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre mondiale the behavior of the Vatican in the period of National Socialism for completeness should investigate. The group discontinued the project without having achieved anything in 2001 because the Vatican authorities did not cooperate to the expected extent and released archives. The Vatican denied this representation. Since 2002 he has directed the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism and was editor of its journal Antisemitism International .

Wistrich has presented a large number of books, book chapters and magazine articles and has received several awards for them. His 1985 study Socialism and the Jews received the prize from the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism and the American Jewish Committee . The book The Jews of Vienna in the Age of Franz Joseph received the Austrian Anton Gindely Prize in 1992 for the history of the Danube Monarchy and Central Europe . The Study of Antisemitism. The Longest Hatred (1981) received the Wingate Literary Prize for non-fiction in the UK in 1993 . This served the PBS as the basis for the three-hour television documentary The Longest Hatred , for which Wistrich wrote the script. In 1993 he wrote the script for Good Morning, Mr. Hitler for Luke Holland on Channel 4 , from which the book A Weekend in Munich emerged. He has worked on radio broadcasts on various people from recent Jewish history on BBC Radio and Kol Israel . In 2003 he accompanied the BBC documentary Blaming the Jews on contemporary Arab anti-Semitism and in 2006 advised the production of the film Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West .

Fonts (selection)

  • Revolutionary Jews from Marx to Trotsky . Harap, London 1976, ISBN 0-245-52785-0 .
  • Trotsky. Fate of a revolutionary . Robson Books, London 1979, ISBN 0-8128-2774-0 .
  • (Ed.): The Left Against Zion . Vallentine Mitchell & Co, 1979, ISBN 0-85303-199-1 .
  • Who's who in Nazi Germany . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1982, ISBN 0-415-12723-8 .
  • Socialism and the Jews: the dilemmas of assimilation in Germany and Austria-Hungary . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, NJ 1982.
  • Hitler's Apocalypse. Jews and the Nazi Legacy . Weidenfeld, London 1985.
  • The anti-Semitic madness . Hueber, Ismaning near Munich 1987.
  • Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and the Jewish Labor Movement, 1893–1903 . In: Ada Rapoport-Albert; Stephen J. Zipperstein (Ed.): Jewish History: Essays in Honor of Chimen Abramsky . Halban, London 1988, pp. 529-545 [Festschrift Chimen Abramsky ].
  • The Jews of Vienna in the age of Franz Joseph . Published for the Littman Library by Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 1989.
    • The Jews of Vienna in the age of Emperor Franz Joseph . Translated from English by Marie-Therese Pitner and Susanne Grabmayr. Böhlau, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-205-98342-4
  • Anti-Zionism and antisemitism in the contemporary world . New York University Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-8147-9237-5 .
  • Anti-Semitism. The longest hatred . Editor Fred Jordan . Pantheon Books, New York 1991.
  • Austrians and Jews in the twentieth century. From Franz Joseph to Waldheim . St. Martin's Press, New York, NY 1992.
  • Weekend in Munich. Art, propaganda and terror in the Third Reich . Consultant: Luke Holland. Pavilion, London 1995, ISBN 1-85793-318-4 .
    • A weekend in Munich. Art, Propaganda and Terror in the Third Reich . Agent: Luke Holland. Translated from the English by Vladimir Delavre. Insel, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-458-16769-2 .
  • Demonizing the Other: Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia . Routledge, London 1999.
  • Theodor Herzl. Visionary of the Jewish State . Herzl Press and Magnes Press, New York / Jerusalem 1999.
  • Hitler and the Holocaust . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 2001.
    • Hitler and the Holocaust . From the English by Sabine Schulte. Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2003.
  • Nietzsche: Godfather of Fascism? Princeton 2002.
  • The Jedwabne Affair , The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University , 2002 Link .
  • Muslim Anti-Semitism: A Clear and Present Danger . American Jewish Committee, New York 2002.
    • Muslim anti-Semitism. A current danger. From the English by Clemens Heni with co-workers. by Thomas Weidauer. With a foreword by Clemens Heni, an afterword by Robert S. Wistrich and a bibliography of the writings of Robert S. Wistrich since 1973. Ed. Critic, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-981454-81-9 .
  • Laboratory for world destruction. Germans and Jews in Central Europe . Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb. 2007, ISBN 978-0-8032-1134-6 .
  • A lethal obsession. Anti-Semitism from antiquity to the global Jihad . Random House, New York 2010, ISBN 978-1-4000-6097-9 .
  • From Ambivalence to Betrayal. The Left, the Jews and Israel . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln 2012.
  • (Ed.): Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-028821-6 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert S. Wistrich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Robert S. Wistrich: The Jedwabne Affair ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , 2002, accessed February 27, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tau.ac.il
  2. ^ Joint Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission Suspends Work , International Council of Christians and Jews , August 10, 2001.
  3. Robert Wistrich. at Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR) (en).
  4. The production and the book contain images from an amateur color film from 1939, which was reconstructed in 1992: Colors 1939 - Day of German Art in Munich in the Internet Movie Database .