Niewyk, Donald L. 1940–

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Niewyk, Donald L. 1940–

PERSONAL: Surname rhymes with "see-like;" born December 21, 1940, in Grand Rapids, MI; son of Albert and Henrietta (Streelman) Niewyk. Education: Western Michigan University, B.A., 1962; Tulane University of Louisiana, M.A., 1964, Ph.D., 1968; Free University of Berlin, graduate fellow, 1966–67.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Columbia University Press, 61 W. 62nd St., New York, NY 10023. E-mail[email protected].

CAREER: Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, instructor in history, 1967–68; Ithaca College, NY, assistant professor of history, 1968–72; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, associate professor of history, beginning 1972.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, Conference Group for Central European History, Phi Alpha Theta.

AWARDS, HONORS: College Center of the Finger Lakes research grant, 1969; American Philosophical Society research grant, 1974.

WRITINGS:

Socialist, Anti-Semite, and Jew: German Social Democracy Confronts the Problem of Anti-Semitism, 1918–1933, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1971.

The Jews in Wiemer Germany, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 1980.

(Translator and editor) Hans-Herbert Stoldt, History and Criticism of the Marcan Hypothesis, Mercer University Press (Macon, GA), 1980.

(Editor) The Holocaust: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation, D.C. Heath (Lexington, MA), 1992.

(Editor) Fresh Wounds: Early Narratives of Holocaust Survival, University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill, NC), 1998.

(With Francis Nicosia) The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor of articles and reviews to Internationale Wissenschaftliche Korrespondenz, Societas, Historical Abstracts, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, 1971, and Jewish Social Studies.