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Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was a Jewish Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust.
The Destruction of the European Jews is a 1961 book by historian Raul Hilberg. Hilberg revised his work in 1985, and it appeared in a new three-volume edition. It is largely held to be the first comprehensive historical study of the Holocaust.
Professor Hilberg made a central contribution to the creation and development of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He was an original member of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust (1978–79) and served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council from 1980 through 1988.
Aug 7, 2007 · Raul Hilberg, a Jewish émigré from Nazi-occupied Vienna who helped begin the field of Holocaust studies with his long and minutely detailed 1961 study of the massacre of European Jews, died ...
Aug 7, 2007 · Raul Hilberg, who established himself as the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust with his monumental and still-controversial 1961 book “The Destruction of the European Jews,” the first ...
Oct 24, 2007 · Eight friends and colleagues of Raul Hilberg's weaved together such a portrait of the late professor of political science during a tribute on Oct. 23 at Ira Allen Chapel. Their words offered moving testimony to the journey of the man who courageously pioneered the study of the Holocaust.
The Destruction of the European Jews is widely considered the landmark study of the Holocaust. First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further research, and shaped the entire field of Holocaust studies.
First published in 1961, Raul Hilberg's comprehensive account of how Germany annihilated the Jewish community of Europe spurred discussion, galvanized further research, and...
Hilberg wrote about different kinds of bystanders in his first edition of Destruction, but it was in the second edition and afterward in PVB that he used the tripartite model that has since become so influential.
May 9, 2007 · Raul Hilberg, speaking to us from his home in Vermont, one of the best-known and most distinguished of Holocaust historians, his three-volume work is The Destruction of the European Jews.
