Global Conversations: Jew-Hatred: The Latest Edition
Here is the recording of our conversation conducted in Melbourne on October 25th, 2026.
Sir Simon Schama is University Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University a writer of a range of large and impressive histories ( of Britain, of the French Revolution, of The Jews, of The Slave Trade, Of Art, of America, of Pandemics …and there’s more} he’s a television writer and presenter of documentaries, and His knighthood is for services to history, but he has written journalism since his student days at Cambridge, when he showed what he’s described as a “precocious knack for hackery.”
Simon Schama is master of the big picture and a lover of the small detail, and he has most recently put his formidable mind to the subject of Jew Hatred – the Latest Edition, published by the Jewish Quarterly.