Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) was an American historian and author specializing in modern Jewish history and the Holocaust, born in New York City to Polish Jewish immigrants. She is best known for her seminal work The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945 (1975), a pioneering study of the Nazi genocide that won the 1976 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, along with other notable books like The Holocaust and the Historians (1981) and her memoir From That Place and Time (1989), which received the 1990 National Jewish Book Award.