Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) 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.
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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 controvers... SEE MORE