Henryk Broder

Henryk M. Broder, one of Germany's best known journalists and commentators, was born in Katowice, Poland, in 1946 and moved to Cologne, Germany, with his parents in 1958. After graduating high school, he began writing for radio, newspapers and magazines and soon became known as a bitingly funny critic of German society and politics, a reputation he retains to this day. Broder lived in Jerusalem from 1981 to 1990, working as a reporter for German, Austrian and Swiss media and as a documentary filmmaker. In 1982 he co-founded Oelbaum Verlag, a small press specializing in Jewish themes. He visited Berlin in late 1990, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, and ended up staying there.

Since 1995 he has been a reporter for Spiegel Magazine and Spiegel Online. Broder has written a dozen books, including the classic "The Eternal Anti-Semite," a scathing critique of anti-Semitism in postwar Germany, and "The Cuckoos of Zion," a collection of reports on the occasion of Israel's 50th birthday. His latest book, "Hurrah, 'We Give Up,'" which deals with German and European appeasement of Islamic fundamentalism, has been on German-language bestseller lists for weeks.

Mr. Broder will be a Fellow in the Culture & Politics Program at AICGS until January 19, 2007.