Professor Bernard Wasserstein is now Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Chicago. Formerly he was President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He is the author of many highly regarded general trade books. He was Dean of Studies at Brandeis University and a Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has won the Yad Vashem International Book Prize. Among his books are Barbarism and Civilisation: A History of Europe in Our Time and On the Eve: The Jews of Europe Before the Second World War. Wasserstein describes himself as a British historian.
