CESARANI, DAVID

CESARANI, DAVID (1956– ), British historian. A wellknown historian of modern Jewry, especially of British Jewry, and of the Holocaust, Cesarani was a professor at Manchester University before becoming head of the wiener library in London from 1993 to 2000. Since 2000 he has served as professor of modern Jewish history at Southampton University. Cesarani is a prolific historian who has written or edited more than 15 books, including a controversial biography of arthur koestler (1998), the first full-length biography in English of adolf eichmann (2004), a history of the Jewish Chronicle newspaper (1994), and an account of attempts by the British government to try reputed Nazi war criminals in Britain, Justice Delayed (1992). He has also edited many collections of essays by historians on topics in modern Jewish history. (William D. Rubinstein (2nd ed.)