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Book Review: "From Left to Right" — The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz By Helen Epstein



Book Review: “From Left to Right” The Story of Holocaust Historian Lucy S. Dawidowicz By Helen Epstein
Posted By Ruth King on December 10th, 2020
This biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz performs the invaluable function of gathering relevant documents and drafting a narrative that rescues a fascinating historian from oblivion. But it does not add much to the history of the New York intellectuals.
From Left to Right: Lucy S. Dawidowicz, The New York Intellectuals, and the Politics of Jewish History by Nancy Sinkoff. Wayne State University Press, 538 pp., $34.99.
There were several reasons I wanted to read a biography of historian and public intellectual Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990). First,  ....

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