Francis R. Nicosia

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Francis R. Nicosia (born October 29, 1944 in Philadelphia ) works as a historian at the University of Vermont with a focus on modern history and Holocaust research .

Life

Francis R. Nicosia worked for the Peace Corps in Libya in 1968/69 . In Germany he practiced 1971/72 as a "Teacher Assistant" at the Peter-Dörfler-Schule high school in Marktoberdorf . He then studied history at Pennsylvania State University and Georgetown University and received his Ph.D. (Ph.D.) in 1978 from McGill University in German and Middle Eastern history .

From 1979 to 2008 he was Professor of History at Saint Michael's College, Vermont , and has been Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont ever since. Nicosia had a research stay in 1992 as a Fulbright scholar at the TU Berlin and in 2006 at the HU Berlin .

In addition to his monographs, he is co-editor of various works and is also involved with contributions to encyclopedic works on the Middle East ("Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East") and the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum .

Fonts

  • Nazi Germany and the Arab world . New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014 ISBN 9781107067127
  • (Ed. With Susanne Heim and Beate Meyer): "Those who stay, sacrifice their years, maybe their lives" - German Jews 1938–1941 . Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0752-0 .
  • (Ed. With David Scrase) Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Dilemmas and Responses . New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2010.
  • Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany . Cambridge UP, New York 2008
    • Zionism and Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich . Translated from the English by Karin Hanta. Wallstein, Göttingen, 2012
  • (Ed. With Jonathan Huener) The Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, and Change . New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006.
  • (Ed. With Jonathan Huener) Business and Industry in Nazi Germany. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004.
  • (Ed. With Jonathan Huener) Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany: Origins, Practices, Legacies . New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2002.
  • (with Donald L. Niewyk) The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust . Columbia UP, New York 2000.
  • (Ed. With Lawrence Stokes ) Germans Against Nazism: Nonconformity, Opposition and Resistance in the Third Reich . Oxford: Berg Publishers, 1990.
  • Hitler and Zionism. The 3rd Reich and the question of Palestine 1933 - 1939. translated from the English by Günter Deckert . Druffel, Leoni am Starnberger See 1989, ISBN 3-8061-1062-8 . (Univ. Of Texas, Diss.)
  • A useful enemy. Zionism in National Socialist Germany 1933-1939 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte 37/3 (1989), pp. 367-400. ( Digital version (PDF; 9.7 MB) of the complete issue)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ date of birth at LC
personal data
SURNAME Nicosia, Francis R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nicosia, Francis; Nicosia, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia