Title

High Redshift Radio Galaxies.

Author:

Wil van Breugel
IGPP/LLNL
L-413, P.O. Box 808
CA 94550
USA

Abstract

I will summarize our improved understanding of the nature and evolution
of high redshift radio galaxies which has been made possible by
observations at the W.M. Keck Observatory over the past several years.
This will include spectropolarimetry observations showing the presence
of hidden quasars in reflected, polarized light; stellar absorption
line measurements and jet-induced star formation in one of the highest
redshift objects; near-infrared observations showing strong rest-frame
optical evolution from radio-aligned to elliptical morphologies of
massive forming galaxies; systematic searches for high redshift `radio
L-band dropouts' using near-infrared and radio spectral selection; and
the discovery of the most distant radio galaxy, for the first time since 
36 years reaching redshifts higher than quasars.