Professor Robert Wistrich, an international expert on Anti-Semitism, holds the Neuberger Chair of Modern European History at Hebrew Univ. , and is head of its Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism. He is the author and editor of 23 books, several of which have won international awards. Between 1999 and 2001, Dr. Wistrich was one of six scholars who were appointed to an international Catholic-Jewish historical commission to examine the wartime record of Pope Pius the XII. More recently, in June 2003, he initiated and acted as Chief Historical Advisor for a BBC film documentary on contemporary Muslim anti-Semitism, entitled "Blaming the Jews".

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