Bernard Wasserstein

Bernard Wasserstein (born 1948) is a professor of history. Wasserstein's area of interest is Jewish history. He is currently teaching at the University of Chicago, but has taught previously at the University of Glasgow, Smith College, Brandeis University and Oxford University, where he studied.

Work

In 1997, Bernard and his brother David wrote an article (available here [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-4633725.html] ) questioning the authenticity of "City of Light", a book that purported to be an account translated by David Selbourne of the voyage by Italian Jacob D'Ancona to 13th Century China, years before Marco Polo.

He wrote the book The Israelis and the Palestinians -- Why do they fight? Can they stop? (September 2003), a work that looks at the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in five chapters: People, Society, Environment, Territory, and Dynamics of Political Change.

His previous book was (September 2001).

He also wrote The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln (1988, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300040768), a 327-page biography of Trebitsch Lincoln.

Barbarism and Civilization is forthcoming in September 2007.

Mr. Wasserstein's first teacher was Anna Freud.

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* Referring to the Muslim attitude towards Jerusalem in the 10th-12th centuries: "as so often in the history of Jerusalem, heightened religious fervour may be explained in large measure by political necessity." (Divided Jerusalem, p11)