The Longest Hatred Renewed: A Tribute to Robert Wistrich

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Abstract:The following article is the text of a memorial lecture presented at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on June 13, 2016 at a special program dedicated to the intellectual legacy of Robert Wistrich. Professor Wistrich, who died on May 19, 2015, taught at the Hebrew University as the Erich Neuberger Professor of European and Jewish History and also served as the head of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism. The author of numerous books and articles on the subject, he was widely regarded as one of the world's leading scholars of antisemitism.