Lucy Schildkret Dawidowicz was an American historian who focused on modern Jewish history, particularly the Holocaust. Her early interests in poetry and literature shifted to a profound engagement with history due to events in Europe. Influenced by the era and her mentor, she dedicated herself to Jewish history, learning Yiddish and working at the YIVO in Wilno. Her personal experiences with antisemitism in Poland and subsequent work with Holocaust survivors deeply shaped her perspectives on Polish-Jewish relations and the destruction of Eastern European Jewry.
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.
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.