Nora Levin (1916–1989)
Auteur van The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945
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- Levin, Nora
- Geboortedatum
- 1916-09-20
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- 1989-10-26
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- USA
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- Temple University
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- History Professor, Gratz College, Philadelphia
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- Nora Levin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she lived for most of her life. She earned a B.S. in education from Temple University and an M.L.S. from Drexel University.
Early in her career, she worked as a research librarian and taught American and European history in high school. Beginning in the late 1960s, she was a professor of history at Gratz College in Melrose Park, Philadelphia, a position she held for nearly 20 years. She was the founding director of the college's Holocaust Oral History Archive, which contains testimonies by more than 700 Holocaust survivors, liberators and witnesses. Her research, writing, and teaching were intertwined with her activism in the Jewish community -- she served on the executive boards of the Soviet Jewry Council, the Philadelphia Jewish Community Relations Council, the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Hebrew Immigration Aid Society. Among her particular interests were Jewish partisans in Europe during World War II, the Jewish labor movement in the USA, socialist Zionists, and refuseniks in the Soviet Union. Her published works included The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933–1945 (1968), which became a standard text; While Messiah Tarried (1977); and the two-volume The Jews of the Soviet Union Since 1917 (1989).
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Levin takes a stance--though not overt it is certainly evident. She uses words like “rantings” and strong adjectives where they may not be perfectly appropriate. It is the Holocaust she's describing, but it is a work of history rather than a memoir, so a little more just-the-facts-ma’am and the reader can worry about the judgments--this is not to say it is short on facts...there are many, and Levin knows her subject, but the author comes through occasionally. Some acts are generalized (“barbarous cruelties”) rather than specifically described. There is an occasional ad homonym attack –“Darre is a crank”, and the phrasing can be slightly repetitive...”no precedent in history”, “unparalleled crimes”, and occasionally facts are restated.
Levin seems to assume a foundational knowledge of the subject, and some subjects are mentioned before there is a discussion—eg Anschluss, Munich Pact, Nuremburg Laws. Knowledge of the Holocaust going into this book may not be a stretch, but the book is called "The Holocaust", and it is not comprehensive despite its length. It takes a high-level perspective on the Holocaust, and concerns itself primarily with the political mechanisms.
There is plenty to be learned from this book, but I would recommend it as further study for someone interested in the Holocaust, and not as a primer or first read.… (meer)