Antony Lerman

Antony Lerman is a Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna, and Honorary Fellow at the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. From 1996 to 1999 and from 2006 to 2009 he was founding director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research, JPR. He was Director of the Institute of Jewish Affairs, JPR’s predecessor and the research arm of the World Jewish Congress (until 1994), from 1991 to 1996. From 1999 to 2006 he was Chief Executive of the Rothschild Foundation (Europe), a grant-making trust he established for the British Rothschild family.

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At JPR he was the founding General Editor of Antisemitism World Report. From 1986 to 1999 he was Editor of Patterns of Prejudice, an international academic journal on racism and antisemitism. In the 1990s he was a member of the Runnymede Trust’s Commission on Antisemitism and from 1998 to 2000 was a member of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain chaired by Lord Parekh.

He is the Editor of Jewish Communities of the World: A Comprehensive Guide (1989), and was Assistant Editor of the annual Survey of Jewish Affairs from 1982 to 1992. He was a founder member of the Jewish Forum for Justice and Human Rights, and a founder member of Independent Jewish Voices.

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He has written for a very wide range of newspapers including the Guardian, Haaretz, The New York Times, and the Jewish Chronicle.

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He lived in Israel for three years in the 1960s and 1970s, most of the time on a kibbutz, with three months as a conscript in the Israeli army, and wrote a book, The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (2012) on his fifty years of engagement with Israel and Zionism. His latest book is Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the ‘Collective Jew’ (2022).

See his website and his Wikipedia entry.​