Creator Bio
Leo W. Schwarz
1906–1967
Leo Walder Schwarz was born in New York City and attended Harvard University. After serving in World War II, Schwarz remained in Germany, helping Jewish refugees in the Munich area in his capacity as director of the Joint Distribution Committee. He later wrote The Redeemers (1953), which chronicles the fates of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. A professor of Judaic Studies at Iowa University from 1960 to 1962, Schwarz is best known as an editor of anthologies of Jewish memoirs and literature.
Content by Leo W. Schwarz
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Memoirs of My People through a Thousand Years
This anthology features excerpts from Jewish diaries and memoirs spanning the eleventh to the twentieth centuries across Europe.
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The Root and the Bough: The Epic of an Enduring People
For the past few years, both in France and Germany, I was awed by the valiant struggle of people who, though only recently liberated from indescribable cruelty, exhibited extraordinary powers of…
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Destruction, Rebirth, and Cultural Thought
1939–1973
The years between 1939 and 1973 witnessed unprecedented tragedy and transformation for the Jewish people.