Bernard Wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein (born 22 January 1948) historian. Born in London, educated at the High School of Glasgow and Wyggeston Boys' Grammar School, Leicester. BA in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford University 1969, MA 1972, DPhil 1974, DLitt 2001.

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• Prof bernard wasserstein interview
• Bernard wasserstein over barbarij en beschaving in europa
• Awards and honours
• Selected work
• References

Wasserstein is currently Allianz Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish History at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich. He previously held positions at the University of Chicago, the University of Glasgow, Brandeis University, Oxford University, and the University of Sheffield. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Awards and honours

Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction (Crime Writers Association), 1988.

Yad Vashem International Book Prize, 2013.

Selected work

1978 The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict 1917-1929

1979 Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945

1985 (edited with Frances Malino) The Jews in Modern France

1988 The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln

1992 Herbert Samuel: A Political Life

1996 Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945

1999 Secret War in Shanghai

2001 Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City

2003 Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop?

2007 Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time

2012 On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War

2014 The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews