David Cesarani has died, aged 58
A research professor in history at Royal Holloway, University of London, he also advised the Home Office unit responsible for Holocaust memorial day and was a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office delegation to the Intergovernmental Taskforce for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research.
In , Mr Cesarani was awarded an OBE for "services to Holocaust Education and advising the government with regard to the establishment of Holocaust Memorial Day”.
Prime Minister David Cameron said:“I will always be incredibly grateful to David Cesarani for his brilliant and passionate contribution to the work of the Holocaust Commission.
"David was one of the great pioneers of Holocaust education and he had a profound influence on how we remember the darkest hour of human history.
"I hope the new National Memorial to the Holocaust together with its accompanying learning centre will help to continue the vital work to which David dedicated so much of his life.”
Sir Peter Bazalgette, Chairman of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation said: "It is with great sadness that we mourn the passing of David Ce
David Cesarani - Biography
David Cesarani OBE (born ) is an English historian who specialises in Jewish history, especially the Holocaust. He has also written several biographies, notably Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind.
Early life
In his teens, Cesarani, himself a Jew, went to work on a kibbutz and became a member of the Israeli peace movement.
His academic career includes periods at the University of Leeds, where he was Montague Burton Fellow in Modern Jewish History; at Queen Mary, University of London; the University of Southampton; and, most recently, as Research Professor of Jewish History at Royal Holloway, University of London. Between working at Southampton and Royal Holloway he was Director of Studies at the Wiener Library, Britain's largest Holocaust library.
Recent Work and Politics on Holocaust
Cesarani is a member of the Home Office Holocaust Memorial Day Strategic Group and has been Director of the AHRC Parkes Centre, part of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations. He is co-editor of the journal Patterns of Prejudice and the Parkes-Wiener Series of books on Jewish Studies (published by Vallentine-Mitchell).
In recen
David Cesarani (–)
A Historian with Breadth, Depth, and the Flair of a Raconteur
The untimely passing of Professor David Cesarani struck his closest friends in Jerusalem like the proverbial bolt of lightning on a clear day. Not that we were unware that he had been diagnosed with bone cancer and had undergone the necessary surgery. But from communications with him and his family, it looked like the surgery had been successful and he was well on the road to full recovery. The prognosis — especially given the excellent shape he seemed to be in as a marathon runner and long-distance cyclist—looked very good. David seemed to draw encouragement from our expressions of concern and was hopeful that in time he would be back to himself completely. So the news of his death was an enormous shock. Perhaps even more surprising was the cause: heart disease. Apparently David’s avid athletics had masked the existence of the heart disease from which he was suffering. Many months later it is still very difficult to come to terms with his death.
I had the great privilege of meeting David professionally over twenty years ago when he first invited me to give a paper at a confer- ence he had
David Cesarani: An intellectual giant of his time
He was no Pollyanna and recognised and weighed hostility to Jews wherever it might appear. But he took a measured view of the degree of threat that it posed.
Earlier this year, he wrote deploring what he saw as the “hysteria about the ‘rise of antisemitism’ and the flight of Jews from Europe”. And he went on (in words that have continued relevance now): “Invoking the fate of the Jews under Nazi rule is not only inappropriate — it is inflammatory and insulting to the victims.
“Raising the spectre of ‘antisemitism’ will not help anyone cope with the threat posed by Jihadists and extreme Islamists.”
David was a strong defender of Israel’s right to exist in freedom and security and an advocate of the “two-state solution”. Over the years, however, he grew more and more frustrated with what he called the “blundering idiocy” of Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians which “has reached new depths of bad PR”.
A sense of responsibility prevented him from uttering his thoughts in full in public but he would explode in private. For example, in a moment of despair in the spring of he wrote to me: “Lord Jakobovits (I think it was him, i
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