Bernard Wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein was born in London and has taught at Oxford, Sheffield, Jerusalem, Brandeis, and Glasgow Universities. He is now Ulrich and Harriet Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History at the University of Chicago. In 2011-12 he is a visiting fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala.

He won the “Golden Dagger” Award for Non-Fiction from the Crime Writers’ Association for The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln. His books for Profile have included Secret War in Shanghai, Divided Jerusalem, and Israel and Palestine. His next book, On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War will be published by Profile in 2012.

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