The War Against the Jews, Lucy S. Dawidowicz
The War Against the Jews, Lucy S. Dawidowicz
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The War Against the Jews
1933-1945

Author: Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Narrator: Suzanne Toren

Unabridged: 23 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/17/2021


Synopsis

A history of how anti-Semitism evolved into the Holocaust in Germany: "If any book can tell what Hitlerism was like, this is it" (Alfred Kazin).

Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a combination of political, social, and technological factors. She explores the full history of Hitler's "Final Solution," from the rise of anti-Semitism to the creation of Jewish ghettos to the brutal tactics of mass murder employed by the Nazis. Written with devastating detail, The War Against the Jews is the definitive and comprehensive book on one of history's darkest chapters.

About Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) was born in New York City, and attended Hunter College for her bachelor's degree and Columbia University for her master's. She traveled to Poland to work at the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1938, but fled just before Hitler's invasion in 1939. After returning to the United States, she taught modern Jewish history at Yeshiva University, Stanford University, and SUNY Albany. Dawidowicz died in 1990 in her home in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lewis on March 22, 2017

I have focused on Dawidowicz's penetrating perspectives on the reaction and response of German Jews to Hitler's persecution. So far, I have read only through the mid-1930s, to match where I am in writing a first draft of the sequel to A Flood of Evil. Selected notes ... ... (after the passage of the......more

Goodreads review by Bob on December 05, 2017

no horror story could compare Maybe you watched "The Killing Fields" (Cambodia), "Hotel Rwanda", or "Amistad". If you didn't, you must have seen a few films about the Holocaust. I saw a few, long ago, but for the last many years I've avoided them because they are just too painful. I've read a lot abo......more

Goodreads review by Julio on July 04, 2023

THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS, wildly popular and discussed when I was a teen in the Seventies, presents an odd paradox. The most original and controversial part of this horrifying opus, on the origins of the Final Solution in Hitler's mind, is the least persuasive, while the most detailed and beautifull......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on August 12, 2020

It was this book - which was given to me by one of my sisters in the summer of 1979 - that first made me aware of the Jewish Holocaust which was carried out against all Jews in Europe by the Third Reich.......more