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From Left to Right - Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Hardcover)
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From Left to Right - Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History (Hardcover)
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From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, the New York Intellectuals,
and the Politics of Jewish History is the first comprehensive
biography of Dawidowicz (1915-1990), a pioneer historian in the
field that is now called Holocaust studies. Dawidowicz was a
household name in the postwar years, not only because of her
scholarship but also due to her political views. Dawidowicz, like
many other New York intellectuals, was a youthful communist, became
an FDR democrat midcentury, and later championed neoconservatism.
Nancy Sinkoff argues that Dawidowicz's rightward shift emerged out
of living in prewar Poland, watching the Holocaust unfold from New
York City, and working with displaced persons in postwar Germany.
Based on over forty-five archival collections, From Left to Right
chronicles Dawidowicz's life as a window into the major events and
issues of twentieth-century Jewish life. From Left to Right is
structured in four parts. Part 1 tells the story of Dawidowicz's
childhood, adolescence, and college years when she was an immigrant
daughter living in New York City. Part 2 narrates Dawidowicz's
formative European years in Poland, New York City (when she was
enclosed in the European-like world of the New York YIVO), and
Germany. Part 3 tells how Dawidowicz became an American while
Polish Jewish civilization was still inscribed in her heart and
also explores when and how Dawidowicz became the voice of East
European Jewry for the American Jewish public. Part 4 exposes the
fissure between Dawidowicz's European-inflected diaspora
nationalist modern Jewish identity and the shifting definition of
American liberalism from the late 1960s forward, which also saw the
emergence of neoconservatism. The book includes an interpretation
of her memoir From that Place and Time, as well as an appendix of
thirty-one previously unpublished letters that illustrate the broad
reach of her work and person. Dawidowicz's right-wing politics,
sex, and unabashed commitment to Jewish particularism in an East
European Jewish key have resulted in scholarly neglect. Therefore,
this book is strongly recommended for scholars and general readers
interested in Jewish and women's studies.
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