Manfred Gerstenfeld

Manfred Gerstenfeld ( born 1937 in Vienna) is an Austrian author and president of the Presidium of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

Life

Manfred Gerstenfeld grew up in Amsterdam and lived from 1964 in Paris. In 1968 he moved with his family to Israel. In addition to a Ph.D. in environmental science, he has a teacher training degree for Jewish Studies of the Dutch Jewish Seminar. Among other things, he was on the board of the Israel Corporation, one of Israel's largest investment firms. He is editor of the Jewish Political Studies Review and co-editor of the series Post- Holocaust and Anti -Semitism.

After the attacks in Norway in 2011 sentenced barley field in the course of the debate about the ideological background of Anders Breivik what he sees as rampant anti-Semitism in Norway. Among the reasons he cited the " ruling elite " in Norway, which was characterized by a " far-reaching lack [ ... ] of self-criticism with a coating of Marxism ", leading to a mixture of " arrogance, shamelessness, lack of moral and intellectual dishonesty " lead. These "elite" have successfully informed much of the population wrong about Israel and thus favors the spread of anti-Semitism. Breivik had, inter alia, in its manifesto the " cultural Marxism " by the Norwegian government as a justification for its stance and declared support for Israel has become an essential point of his ideology.

In the controversy surrounding Günter Grass poem What must be said ', designated barley field the European newspapers that abdruckten the poem (Süddeutsche Zeitung, El Pais, The Guardian and policies ) as well as " part-time anti-Semitic ," as the author Grass itself

Writings

  • Rivalutare l' Italia. Sperling & Kupfer, Milan 1992, ISBN 88-200-1457-2. ( with Lorenzo necci )
  • Environment and Confusion. Academon, 1993, ISBN 9653500430th
  • The State as a business. Rizzoli, 1994.
  • Judaism, Environmentalism and the Environment - Mapping and Analysis. Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, 1998
  • Echut ha ha Sviva ba Masoret Yehudit: Olam Bar Kayma ( The Environment in the Jewish Tradition: A Sustainable World ). Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Center for Environmental Policy, 2002.
  • Europe's Crumbling Myths: The Post- Holocaust Origins of Today 's Anti -Semitism. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem 2003, ISBN 9,652,180,572th
  • European- Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change? Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem 2006, ISBN 978-965-218-054-4.
  • Academics Against Israel and the Jews. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem 2007, ISBN 978-965-218-057-5.
  • Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel and the Jews. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, Jerusalem 2008, ISBN 978-965-218-066-7.
  • The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem 2009, ISBN 978-9652180766.
  • Verwrongen beelden van de Holocaust - Geschiedvervalsing onder de Loep. Jongbloed Publishing Group, 2011
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