Saul S. Friedman

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Saul S. Friedman (born March 8, 1937 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania ; died March 31, 2013 in Canfield, Ohio ) was an American historian.

Life

Saul S. Friedman was the son of Albert and Rebecca Friedman and came from a large family. He married Nancy Evans in 1964, they have two children, the historian Jonathan C. Friedman is a son.

Friedman graduated from Kent State University (BA) and received his PhD in history from Ohio State University . He received a professorship in Jewish and Middle Eastern history at Youngstown State University in 1969 . In 2000 he founded the YSU Judaic and Holocaust Studies program, and in 2006 he retired.

Friedman was an anti-Semitism researcher and published on the Holocaust and the history of the Middle East. In addition to twelve books, he produced documentaries from the late 1980s, five of which were awarded regional Emmy Awards .

Fonts (selection)

  • Official United States policy toward Jewish refugees 1938-1945 . Ohio State University, 1969
  • No haven for the oppressed: United States policy toward Jewish refugees, 1938-1945 . Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1973. Dissertation.
  • Pogromchik: the assassination of Simon Petlura . New York: Hart Pub. Co., 1976
  • The incident at Massena: the blood libel in America . New York: Stein and Day, 1978
  • Amcha: an oral testament of the Holocaust . Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1979
  • Land of dust: Palestine at the turn of the century . Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1982
  • The Oberammergau Passion Play: A Lance Against Civilization . Foreword by Emil Fackenheim . Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1984
  • Without future: the plight of Syrian Jewry . New York: Praeger, 1989
  • with Egon Redlich (Ed.): The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich . Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992, ISBN 9780813118048
  • (Ed.): Holocaust Literature. A Handbook of Critical, Historical, and Literary Writings . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1993, ISBN 0-313-26221-7
  • Jews and the American slave trade . New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998
  • A History of the Holocaust . Portland, OR: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004
  • A history of the Middle East . Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2006
Movies
  • The Snow was red . Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, 1990 (Jewish-Ukrainian history)

literature

  • Jonathan C. Friedman , Robert D. Miller II. (Eds.): The Highest Form of Wisdom: A Memorial Publication in Honor of Saul S. Friedman (1937-2013) . Brooklyn, NY: KTAV, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Saul S. Friedman , in: The Vindicator, April 2, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Friedman, Saul S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Uniontown, Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2013
Place of death Canfield, Ohio