David Wyman

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David Wyman
Born
David Sword Wyman

(1929-03-29)March 29, 1929
Weymouth, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMarch 14, 2018(2018-03-14) (aged 88)
Alma materHarvard University
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
Scientific career
FieldsHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst

David Sword Wyman (6 March 1929

University of Massachusetts, Amherst.[3][4]

Early life and education

Wyman was born in

Ph.D. in history from Harvard University.[6]

Career

From 1966 until his retirement in 1991, Wyman taught history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he twice chaired the Judaic studies program.

Hebrew Union College and Yeshiva University,[6] both in New York City. He was chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C.[3]

American immigration policy in the Nazi years.[9] In Paper Walls, Wyman discusses the combination of antisemitism, nativistic nationalism, economic crisis and isolationism that made rescue inconceivable.[9]

In his later work, Wyman contended that the attitude of

Bergson Group was the correct one. If American Jews had taken a more forceful approach, government policy could have been changed.[9]

Zionism

Although Wyman wrote his books "not as an insider" (i.e., a non-Jew writing about Jewish history), he has still "advocated a Jewish state for a long time," and believes he would "have backed the Zionist movement during the World War II era" if he had been old enough to be involved in political affairs (he would have been between 11 and 16 at the time).[8] In his book, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945, Wyman writes "Today I remain strongly pro-Zionist and I am a resolute supporter of the state of Israel. My commitment to Zionism and to Israel has been confirmed and increased by years of study of the Holocaust."[8] He goes to say "I look upon Israel as the most important line of defense against anti-Semitism in the world."[8] He concludes this particular paragraph with a statement that manages to capture Wyman's pro-Zionist views in just a single sentence: "Had there been a Jewish state in the 1933 to 1945 era, it would be much less painful today for all of us to confront the history of European Jewry during World War II."[8]

Major publications

editor of:

Awards

1985:

National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category for The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945[10]

Notes

  1. ISBN 9780837971001
    – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "David S. Wyman, Holocaust scholar, dead at 89 | WTOP". Archived from the original on 2018-03-16. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  3. ^ a b "About David Wyman". The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
  4. ^ "In Memoriam". The Magazine of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Summer 2018.
  5. ^ "Wyman, David S. 1929- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com.
  6. ^ a b c d About David S. Wyman The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
  7. ^ "About David S. Wyman". 19 January 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e f Wyman, David (1984). "Preface". The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. 0-394-42813-7: Pantheon Books. pp. xii.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  9. ^ a b c America and the Holocaust, by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Modern Judaism, Vol. 10, No. 3, Review of Developments in Modern Jewish Studies, Part 1 (Oct., 1990), pp. 283-296
  10. ^ "Past Winners". Jewish Book Council. Retrieved 2020-01-21.

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