Bernard Wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein is a British-American historian. He was born on January 22 1948 in London. He was a professor at the University of Chicago for 11 years.

Books

Wasserstein has written 12 books

• The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict 1917–1929 (1978)
• Britain and the Jews of Europe, 1939–1945 (1979)
• The Jews in Modern France, edited with Frances Malino (1985)
• The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (1988)
• Herbert Samuel: A Political Life (1992)
• Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe since 1945 (1996)
• Secret War in Shanghai (1999)
• Divided Jerusalem: The Struggle for the Holy City (2001)
• Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? (2003)
• Barbarism and Civilization: A History of Europe in Our Time (2007)
• On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War (2012)
• The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews (2014)