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David Cesarani

David Cesarani reviews Tom Segev’s biography of the man who was credited with bringing hundreds of Nazi war criminals to justice and Bob Moore's study of Jewish rescue organisations in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Published September 19 2011

The 50th anniversary of the trial and execution of the Final Solution’s master bureaucrat has inspired a number of books, exhibitions and films. David Cesarani assesses their contribution to our understanding of both the event and the man.

Published June 22 2011

David Cesarani reviews Zdenka Fantlova's autobiography. 

Published August 24 2010

David Ceserani reviews a novel set in Second World War Berlin.

Published July 27 2010

David Cesarani reviews two books on genocide.

Published June 11 2010

David Cesarani reviews a work by Mary-Kay Wilmers.

Published June 11 2010

David Cesarani reviews a book about a strange subset of the Third Reich's military, by Bryan Mark Rigg.

Published August 10 2009

In 1947, as Zionist insurgents wreaked havoc, British special forces in Palestine adopted counterinsurgency tactics that attracted worldwide condemnation. David Cesarani discusses a scandal whose ramifications persist to this day.

Published February 16 2009
Theodore S. Hamerow WW Norton   576pp   £22.99 ISBN 978 0393 064629 In this quirky volume Theodore Hamerow sets out to explain the burgeoning interest in the Holocaust over recent decades. Although it is now regarded as a central event of the last century and the defining atrocity of the Second World War, until the 1960s it was not singled out for scholarly research or cultural exploration. Nor was it commemorated extensively. Why not?
Published December 16 2008

David Cesarani examines the effects of a long history on a new nation state.

Published January 20 2004

David Cesarani reflects on the past, present and future of education about genocide and bigotry.

Published January 16 2002

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