Background
Wasserstein, Bernard Mano Julius was born on January 22, 1948 in London. Came to the United States, 1980. Son of Abraham and Margaret (Ecker) Wasserstein.
(In 1942 it was announced in Britain that the Germans were...)
In 1942 it was announced in Britain that the Germans were carrying out exterminations of the Jewish people, yet the British government continued to reject all proposals for saving the Jews. Based on archival sources, this book examines British policy towards the Jewish problem during World War II. It explores the reasons for the near-total ban on Jewish refugee immigration into Britain, the restrictive immigration policy in Palestine, the failure to aid Jewish resistance in Europe, and the rejection of the scheme for the Allied bombing of Auschwitz. What emerges is a story of bureaucratic complacency, inhumanity and blindness to the Jewish catastrophe in Europe.
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(Hungarian-Jewish thief, Anglican priest, social reformer,...)
Hungarian-Jewish thief, Anglican priest, social reformer, member of Parliament, crooked speculator, international spy, right-wing revolutionary - Lincoln was all of these, and more, in the course of his life. His motivation, identities and activities are discussed in this book.
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(Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political career be...)
Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political career began in the age of Gladstone and ended in the era of Grimond. Wasserstein assesses the vital role played by Samuel in the survival of the Liberal Party and his part in translating that doctrine into legislation that laid the foundations of the welfare state. He played a central role in the history of Zionism, serving as first British High Commissioner in Palestine from 1920 to 1925. He returned to office in the National Government of 1931, and led the Liberal Party between 1931 and 1935. In later life Samuel established himself as a philosopher, a respected elder statesman, and a much admired broadcaster. Wasserstein's scholarly and readable biography, based on extensive research in all the available sources, provides a rounded portrait of a leading twentieth-century political figure.
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( In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After H...)
In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After Hitler there were four million. Today in 1996 there are under two million. On current projections the Jews will become virtually extinct as a significant element in European society over the course of the twenty-first century. Now, in the first comprehensive social and political history of the experience and fate of European Jews during the last fifty years, Bernard Wasserstein sheds light on the reasons for this dire demographic projection. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, many hitherto unpublished, Wasserstein begins with the painful years of liberation after World War II when Jews tried to recover from the destruction of their people and communities, then traces the Jewish experience in Eastern and Western Europe in different national and ideological contexts. His important and original inquiry covers the impact on Jews of postwar reconstruction, Soviet occupation, the Cold War, and the collapse of communism. These, combined with the memory of Nazi genocide, the persistence of antisemitism, the development of Israel, and the Middle East conflicts, shaped the history of European Jewry in the second half of the twentieth century. With exceptional eloquence and conviction, Vanishing Diaspora argues that survival for European Jews ultimately will depend on choices they themselves make to reverse trends. They have an alarmingly imbalanced death-to-birth ratio, and many have jettisoned religious observance in the spirit of a secular Europe, losing their cultural distinctiveness as well as their numbers. This often painful story of destruction, irreparable loss, and the shattering of ties thus serves as a wake-up call and a dramatic warning.
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( In this timely book, Bernard Wasserstein offers the fir...)
In this timely book, Bernard Wasserstein offers the first authoritative history of the fraught diplomatic relations surrounding the Holy City of Jerusalem. Jews, Muslims, and Christians have all claimed the city as their own over the centuriesas have a dizzying array of foreign nations. In the period between the founding of the city and its capture by Israelis in 1967, Jerusalem has been conquered at least thirty-seven times. No other town,” wrote Arthur Koestler in 1948, has caused such continuous waves of killing, rape, and unholy misery over the centuries as the Holy City.” Today, Jerusalem lies at the core of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It is the most deeply divided capital city in the world: its Arab and Jewish residents inhabit different districts, speak different languages, attend different schools, read different newspapers, observe different holy dayslive, in almost every significant respect, different lives. Against the background of renewed violence in and around Jerusalem, this book explores the complicated origins of the current diplomatic impasse. Why is the question of Jerusalem so intractable? Why has it outlasted almost every other political dispute as a focus for diplomatic wrangling and collective violence? And what are the prospects for resolution? Meticulously researched, and written with humanity and elegance, this book offers an illuminating contribution to the effort to achieve a lasting negotiated settlement of a tragic conflict that affects us all.
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(In this timely and balanced book, Bernard Wasserstein tra...)
In this timely and balanced book, Bernard Wasserstein traces the history of diplomatic struggles over Jerusalem from the Crusades to the present day. Wasserstein illuminates the complicated origins of the current diplomatic impasse, details the negotiations of the last thirty years, and examines the prospects for lasting negotiated peace in this deeply divided city. This second edition includes new, updated material.
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(Here is the definitive history of contemporary Europe, a ...)
Here is the definitive history of contemporary Europe, a controversial but authoritative and lively narrative that is destined to become the standard account of the period from 1914 to the present. In this superb volume, esteemed historian Bernard Wasserstein offers the first serious, full-length history of a century of convulsive change. It is a history of barbarism and civilization, of cruelty and tenderness, of technological achievement and environmental blight, of imperial expansion and withdrawal, of authoritarian repression and of individual rebirth. Wasserstein provides both a narrative of the main contours of the political, diplomatic, and military history and an analysis the underpinnings of demographic, economic, and social developments. Drawing on the latest scholarly findings, including recent disclosures of intelligence materials and archival revelations that followed the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Wasserstein captures the essence of contemporary European history in an engaging narrative that is by turns grim, humorous, surprising, and enlightening.
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(Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, Third ...)
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, Third Edition by Wasserste...
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(Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, Third ...)
Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, Third Edition by Wasserste...
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(The period between the British occupation of Palestine in...)
The period between the British occupation of Palestine in 1917 and the bloody riots of 1929 could be said to have set the mould for both the institutional and psychological climate for the Arab-Jewish conflict, even up to the present day. Decisions were made at the time that have had consequences far beyond their immediate horizon. In the second of this study, historian Bernard Wasserstein re-examines the role of the British, Arab, and Jewish decision-makers in the light of new evidence about this formative period of Middle Eastern politics.
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Wasserstein, Bernard Mano Julius was born on January 22, 1948 in London. Came to the United States, 1980. Son of Abraham and Margaret (Ecker) Wasserstein.
Bachelor, Oxford University, 1969. Master of Arts, Oxford University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford University, 1974.
Doctor of Literature, Oxford University, 2001.
Research fellow in politics Nuffield College, Oxford (England) University, 1973-1975;junior lecturer politics Magdalen College, Oxford (England) University, 1973;lecturer politics and international relations Corpus Christi College, Oxford (England) University, 1974-1976;lecturer modern history, U. Sheffield, England, 1976-1980;associate professor of history, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1980-1982;professor of history, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1982-1996;president, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1996;department chairman, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1986-1990;dean graduate school, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1990-1992. Visiting lecturer Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1979-1980.
(The period between the British occupation of Palestine in...)
(Hungarian-Jewish thief, Anglican priest, social reformer,...)
(Here is the definitive history of contemporary Europe, a ...)
(In 1942 it was announced in Britain that the Germans were...)
( In this timely book, Bernard Wasserstein offers the fir...)
(In this timely and balanced book, Bernard Wasserstein tra...)
(Herbert Samuel's extraordinarily long political career be...)
(Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, Third ...)
(Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City, Third ...)
( In 1939 there were ten million Jews in Europe. After H...)
(Book by Stone, Professor Julius)
(Book by Stone, Professor Julius)
Author: The British in Palestine, 1978, Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945, 1979, The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln, 1988 (Golden Dagger award 1988), Herbert Samuel: A Political Life, 1992, Vanishing Diaspora, 1996, Secret Was in Shanghai, 1998, Divided Jerusalem, 2001, Israel and Palestine, 2003, Barbarism and Civilization, 2007.
Fellow Royal History Society, Royal Asiatic Society. Member United Oxford Club, Cambridge Universities Club, Athanaeum (London). M C.
Married Janet Barbara Sherrard, November 29, 1981. Children: Charlotte Sophia, Shirley Haasnoot, Tomer Peter Abraham.