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Willy Meisl was a trailblazing Austrian-Jewish sports journalist who revolutionised the field during the Weimar Republic. A product of Viennese coffee houses, Meisl intellectualised sports writing in the interwar years, covering themes such as professionalism, tactics and sporting antiquity for wide audiences, in a style more commonly found in newspaper culture sections. Contemporaries called him the “King of the Sports Journalists”. But his work was affected profoundly by the Nazi’s rise to power, and he began to write about the roots of Nazism, the terror it unleashed, and about Jewish people and identity, exposing fallacies of the racial theories that forced him into exile. This volume gathers his most powerful writings on these themes, presented in their original German with English introductions. A forgotten pioneer of interwar journalism, Meisl’s work remains as urgent and insightful today as it was in his time. Co-Editors Professor Chris Young and Darren O’Byrne welcome you to join them in conversation with Michael Berkowitz, Professor of Modern Jewish History at UCL and Justin Cohen, News Editor of The Jewish News. Information Source: Woolf Institute | eventbrite