About the lecturer

Professor Nora Levin is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Director of the Holocaust Archive at Gratz College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her book The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry, 1933-45, for which this course is named, received instantaneous and widespread acclaim on its publication by Crowell in 1968. It was chosen as an Alternate Selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club, received the Jolson award of the National Jewish Book Council, and was selected as an outstanding academic book by Choice. It has since appeared in paperback in several printings by Schocken Books, and has been widely used as a textbook in college and high school courses on the Holocaust. It is the basic text for this course.

Professor Levin has also written While Messiah Tarried: Jewish Socialist Movements: 1871-1917 (Schocken, 1977, and currently published by Oxford University Press in the Littman Library of Jewish Civilization). Her new book, Soviet Jewry Since 1917: Paradox of Survival, will soon be published by New York University Press. Professor Levin's articles have appeared in numerous publications and she has presented papers at many conferences and seminars. She has frequently appeared on the lecture platform throughout the country and is also actively involved in Jewish community affairs, particularly in relation to Soviet Jewry.