Manfred Gerstenfeld

Manfred Gerstenfeld (Hebrew: (מנפרד גרסטנפלד‎; born 1937 in Vienna is an Israeli strategist, author and scholar. .

Biography

Manfred Gerstenfeld was born in Vienna and grew up in Amsterdam. In 1964 his wife Marianne and he moved to Paris, where he joined the economic research company Eurofinance. He became the head of its stock market analysis department in the chemical, pharmaceutical and related industries. He was the chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) -- then a volunteer position -- from 1963 until 1967. He was a member of the Board of the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture and an associate member of the Board of the European section of the World Jewish Congress. The Gerstenfelds with their two French-born sons Dan and Alon moved to Israel in 1968. He has a Drs. degree in Organic Chemistry and Economics as well as a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from the University of Amsterdam. Gerstenfeld was a board member of the Israel Corporation and other Israeli companies. He is a former editor of The Jewish Political Studies Review, co-publisher of the Jerusalem Letter/Viewpoints, Post-Holocaust and Anti-Semitism and Changing Jewish Communities and a former Vice Chairman of the Foundation for Research of Dutch Jewry. Since 2000 he is Chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, a Jerusalem based think tank. He was the director of its Institute for Global Jewish Affairs until 2011. By the end of 2011 he had published 20 books. His books have appeared in 7 languages.

Publications

Books

• Revaluing Italy with Lorenzo Necci (Italian) (1992)
• Environment and Confusion: An Introduction to a Messy Subject(Italian, English, Hebrew and Greek) (1993)
• The State as a Business: Do-It-Yourself Political Forecasting (Italian) (1994)
• Israel’s New Future Interviews (Hebrew and Italian)(1994)
• Judaism, Environmentalism and the Environment (1998)
• The Environment in the Jewish Tradition: A Sustainable World (Hebrew) (2002)
• Europe’s Crumbling Myths: The Post-Holocaust Origins of Today’s Anti-Semitism (2003)
• The New Clothes of European Anti-Semitism (French)(2004), co-edited with Shmuel Trigano
• American Jewry's Challenge: Conversations Confronting the Twenty-first Century (2004)
• Israel and Europe: An Expanding Abyss? (2005)
• European-Israeli Relations: Between Confusion and Change? (2006)
• Israel at the Polls 2006 with Shmuel Sandler and Jonathan Rynhold (2008)
• Academics against Israel and the Jews. link to the book (2007)
• Behind the Humanitarian Mask: The Nordic Countries, Israel, and the Jews link to the book (2008)
• The Abuse of Holocaust Memory: Distortions and Responses (English, Dutch and Norwegian ) (2009)
• Anti-Semitism in Norway: Behind the Humanitarian Mask (Norwegian) (2010)
• American Jewry's Comfort Level: Present and Future with Steven Bayme. link to the book(2010)
• Israel at the Polls 2009 with Shmuel Sandler and Hillel Frisch (2010)
• Het Verval. Joden in een stuurloos Nederland (The Decay. Jews in a Rudderless Netherlands) (Dutch) (2010)
• Judging the Netherlands: The Renewed Holocaust Restitution Process, 1997-2000(2011)

Articles

• The Gaza War and the New Outburst of Anti-Semitism
• Symbolic and Other Roles of Jews in Dutch Society
• Ahmadinejad Calls for Israel's Elimination and Declares War on the West: A Case Study of Incitement to Genocide
• The Mahathir Affair: A Case Study In Mainstream Islamic Anti-Semitism
• Srebrenica: The Dutch Sabra and Shatilla
• The Mohammed-Cartoon Controversy, Israel, and the Jews: A Case Study
• European Politics: Double Standards Toward Israel
• The Twenty-first-century Total War Against Israel and the Jews Part One and Part Two
• Various articles on Jewish Environmental Perspectives.

Many articles of this author can be viewed at the following websites: Jewish Political Studies Review, Post Holocaust and Anti-Semitism, Changing Jewish Communities, Jewish Environmental Perspectives. Ynet, The Jewish Press, The Jewish Tribune, Israel National News, Informazione Coretta (Italian), Audiatur, (German) Heplev, (German), Lessakele (French), Israel Magazine (French), Brabosh (dutch),

External links

• Personal website
• Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
• Institute for Global Jewish Affairs at the JCPA
• Publications by Manfred Gerstenfeld on the Berman Jewish Policy Archive @ NYU Wagner