Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowicz's classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaust-from the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the Final Solution.
When Leon Wieseltier's father died in 1996, he began to observe the rituals of the traditional year of mourning, going daily to the synagogue to recite the Kaddish. This is the story of Wieseltier's search for an understanding of the Kaddish.
A collection of documents from the 16th century to 1939, demonstrating the changes in Jewish life and thought in Eastern Europe, which includes writings by Bergson, Chagall, Weizmann and Trotsky.
"From that Place and Time" is the memoir of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, an American-Jewish historian who set out to study Yiddish language and Jewish history at YIVO, the Jewish Scientific Institute in Vilna, Poland, in 1938. Dawidowicz's memoir not only describes her pre-war year in Jewish Eastern Europe, but also treats the ghostly post-war period, and ...
Discusses the growth of anti-Semitism in Germany from the sixteenth century until the Holocaust during the twentieth century. Includes topics for discussion.
Dawidowicz raised an original and deeply influential voice concerning the writing of Holocaust history with her groundbreaking history of the Nazi genocide, The War Against the Jews. This posthumous collection of her essays includes published articles as well as materials from her last work-in-progress, a major history of American Jews.
In this courageous book, the author of The War Against the Jews confronts the contemporary uses and misuses of the Holocaust, particularly the motives of those who would seek to deny the Nazi genocide. "These permanent essays should keep us permanently honest".--Cynthia Ozick.
The systematic destruction of six million Jews, carried out by the German state under Adolf Hitler during the Second World War, is still almost impossible to comprehend. In this extraordinary book Lucy S. Dawidowicz lays out the facts in a concise, coherent overview of the war against the Jews. She examines how it was possible for a modern state ...
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York: Behrman House Inc
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780874412222ISBN:0874412226
Description: Description: 190 p. : ill.; 23 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Juvenile literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. read more
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
