A rare recent interview with Lord Weidenfeld
The publisher and philanthropist Lord Weidenfeld has died in London at the age of 96.
He founded publishing company Weidenfeld & Nicolson with Nigel Nicolson in 1949, after working for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½, and remained its chairman.
Lord Weidenfeld emigrated to London after fleeing the Nazis in Austria and later became a British citizen.
He recently set up a scheme, Operation Safe Havens, to help Syrian Christians fleeing violence in the Middle East.
Lord Weidenfeld spoke on the Today programme in March 2015 about the record high number of anti-Semitic incidents reported in the UK in 2014 and the importance of peace in the Middle-East.
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