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Interview with Robert Wistrich

Host Jonathan Judaken talks with Robert Wistrich, Neuberger Professor of History and Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. 

While it is in the nature of academics to squabble, there is widespread consensus that Wistrich is the foremost living scholar of modern antisemitism. 

Recently publishing his thirtieth book, a massive summa that encompasses a lifetime of scholarly engagement with the topic, his latest monograph is titled From Ambivalence to Betrayal: Israel, the Jews, and the Left.

My mother introduced me to WKNO-FM and public radio long before I can remember. I suppose the first thing I really recall about WKNO-FM is that every afternoon, when my mother picked me up from school, the radio was tuned-in to The World, then All Things Considered, probably beginning around age 8. The way these reporters and hosts took you from the comfort of your mom's van to wherever in the world they were reporting from absolutely fascinated me. From then on, I was officially hooked.
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