Chronicles the history and achievements of Jews in America, detailing the difficulties they encountered, the benefits and freedom they found, and their growing influence on American society

On Equal Terms

Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Holt Publishing

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 to carry out the systematic murder of a whole people, detailing Hitler's ideology, the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany, anti-Jewish legislation and the annihilation camps. She also discusses how Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe responded to the assault against their rights, their livelihoods and finally their lives. Stark, sober and yet overwhelming, this is an authoritative and essential work of history.

The War Against the Jews, 1933-45

Penguin Books, Ltd.

"At last someone has put together, in the most sober, factual and overwhelming way, the essential facts about Hitler's war against the Jewish people.  What a marvelous thing to do: to write great history as if it were nothing but a mere record.  The patient factuality of the book overwhelms me.  It is a great book in what it tells us, great, too, in the singular purity of its style.  It builds up a picture of the Nazi cruelty that shakes the reader as much as does the grimly reserved piling up of the facts.  This is a book that one reads in tears, in despair, but above all with gratitude.  If any book can tell the current generation what Hitlerism was like, this is it.  May it yet startle the weary conscience of our time." -- Alfred Kazan

History

World

Dawidowicz Lucy S. : War Against the Jews 1933-45 (Pelican)

The renowned author of The War Against the Jews sets out to solve a historiographical mystery. Why has the mass murder of European Jews been overlooked or trivialized by historians throughout the world? In a forceful, outspoken work, Lucy Dawidowicz looks for explanations.

The Holocaust and the historians

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harvard University Press

<p>What is the use of Jewish history? Of history in general, for that matter? When one of the best-known Jewish historians asks this question at the end of a long career, we can be sure of an answer that is profound, passionate, and personal.<br>Lucy Dawidowicz raised an original and deeply influential voice concerning the writing of Holocaust history. After the publication of her ground-breaking and best-selling history of the Nazi genocide, The War Against the Jews, in 1975, she continued to write numerous essays and articles countering the arguments of revisionist historians, as well as the charges of Jewish passivity and American complacency during the Holocaust.<br>This posthumous collection of Dawidowicz's essays presents her published articles on contemporary uses and misuses of the Holocaust, as well as material relating to her last work-in-progress, a major history of American Jews. A testament to the historian's craft by one of its great practitioners, it will inspire all those who see in the writing of history a primary vehicle for the presentation of culture. Edited and with a luminous introduction by Neal Kozodoy, this volume brings to us Lucy Dawidowicz's sure and guiding voice.</p>

What Is the Use of Jewish History?

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On Equal Terms

The War Against the Jews, 1933-45

The War Against the Jews, 1933-45

Dawidowicz Lucy S. : War Against the Jews 1933-45 (Pelican)

The Holocaust and the historians

What Is the Use of Jewish History?