Robert Wistrich
Robert S. Wistrich
is Professor of
Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Head of the
International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. His new book is
A Lethal Obsession: Antisemitism from Antiquity to the Global
Jihad.
He is the
author and editor of numerous 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. His
most 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. In June 2003, he
initiated and acted as Chief Historical Advisor for a BBC film
documentary on contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism, entitled “Blaming
the Jews”.
