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Occupation (s) Historian, author. Lucy Dawidowicz ( née Schildkret; June 16, 1915 – December 5, 1990) was an American historian and writer. She wrote books about modern Jewish history, in particular, about the Holocaust.
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Dawidowicz, Lucy (1915–1990)American historian of the Holocaust, whose major work The War Against the Jews (1975) argued that virtually all of the policies of Nazi Germany were rooted in Adolf Hitler's racism. Born Lucy Schildkret in New York, New York, on June 16, 1915; die Source for ...
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Jul 9, 2020 · Dawidowicz came to reject the alleged innate association of Jewishness with liberalism, and remained unapologetically committed to the idea that Jewishness is a distinctive identity, viewpoints ...
Jul 7, 2020 · Now, in a new biography From Left to Right: Lucy Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of the Jewish History, Nancy Sinkoff, a professor at Rutgers University, tells the story of Dawidowicz’s intellectual evolution. Like many of the New York intellectuals lionized in scholarly and popular accounts, Dawidowicz was born in an ...
Dec 6, 1990 · Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a scholar of Jewish life and history whose book "The War Against the Jews" is widely regarded as a pioneering study of the Nazi genocide, died early Wednesday in Manhattan....
Aug 4, 2020 · Dawidowicz, like many other immigrant children, notably the famous “New York intellectuals,” was a youthful communist, became an FDR democrat midcentury, and later championed neoconservatism. Sinkoff argues that Dawidowicz’s rightward shift emerged out of living in prewar Poland, watching the Holocaust unfold from New York City, and ...
May 1, 1992 · In the realm of thought and judgment Lucy Dawidowicz, who died in December 1990 at the age of seventy-five, was a tough woman, and in her bold American and in her stubborn Jewish way, the more faithfully she performed the duties of thought and judgment the more indomitable she grew. 2. “The terrible finality of the murder of the European Jews ...
