Kushner, Tony
KUSHNER, TONY
KUSHNER, TONY (1960– ), British historian. Tony Kushner, Marcus Sieff Professor of Jewish history at Southampton University, wrote widely on antisemitism and the immigrant experience, especially in Britain, and on the Holocaust. His very prolific writings emphasized the ambiguity of the Jewish experience and discerned, often from a left-wing perspective, more antisemitism in British society than some previous historians. Kushner linked this with British liberalism, which often could not accommodate the specific situation of the Jews and had difficulties in imagining the unprecedented evil of the Holocaust. He is the author of The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (1989) and The Holocaust and the Liberal Imagination (1994). He was also the editor or co-editor of more than a dozen collections of original essays, such as Refugees in an Age of Genocide (1999).
[William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)]