Former Chair
Prof. Peter Pulzer (1929–2023) was born in Vienna and fled Nazi persecution with his family in 1939. Gladstone Professor Emeritus of Government at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, he was a pioneering scholar of antisemitism, serving as former Chair and Honorary Lifetime President of the Leo Baeck Institute London.
Works
- The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism in Germany and Austria, 1964, 2nd edition 1988 (German edition 1966, 2nd edition 2003)
- Political Representation and Elections in Britain, 1967, 3rd edition 1975
- Jews and the German State, 1992, 2nd edition 2003
- German Politics 1945–1995, 1995
- Germany 1870–1945: politics, state formation and war, 1997
- (editor with K. R. Luther) Austria 1945–1995: fifty years of the Second Republic, 1998
- (editor with Wolfgang Benz) Jews in the Weimer Republic, 1998
- (contributor) German-Jewish History in Modern Times, 1998