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Among the classical Jewish sources, besides the biblical account, Josephus mentions that Cyrus freed the Jews from captivity and helped rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. He also wrote to the other rulers and governors of the region, instructing them to contribute to the project. A letter from Cyrus to the Jewish people is described by Josephus: [11]
The biblical Book of Ezra includes two texts said to be decrees of Cyrus the Great allowing the deported Jews to return to their homeland after decades and ordering the Temple rebuilt. The differences in content and tone of the two decrees, one in Hebrew and one in Aramaic, have caused some scholars to question their authenticity. [ 19 ]
[1] Stargardt wrote that the book uses "a timbre that is clear and somber, the voice of classical realism". [2] Jack Fischel of the Jewish Book Council stated that Cesarani's thesis does not take into account how plans to deport Jews to Madagascar and alternate plans prior to the finalizing of the Holocaust would have killed Jews anyway. [4 ...
Judenfrei describes the local Jewish population having been removed from a town, region, or country by forced evacuation during the Holocaust, though many Jews were hidden by local people. Removal methods included forced re-housing in Nazi ghettos especially in eastern Europe , and forced removal or Resettlement to the East by German troops ...
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (Pantheon Books, 1984) ISBN 978-0-394-42813-0; editor of: America and the Holocaust (thirteen volumes of the documents used in The Abandonment of the Jews (Garland, 1990) The World Reacts to the Holocaust (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) ISBN 0-8018-4969-1
David H. Kranzler (May 19, 1930 – November 29, 2007) [1] was an American professor of library science at Queensborough Community College, New York, who specialized in the study of the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust.
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945 is a 1984 nonfiction book by David S. Wyman, former Josiah DuBois professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Wyman was the chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.
In Raul Hilberg 1961 The Destruction of the European Jews Hilberg's own detailed breakdown in The Destruction reveals a total estimated death toll of 5.1 million Jews. In her book The War Against the Jews 1933-1945 (1975) Dawidowicz researched birth and death records in many cities of prewar Europe to come up with a death toll of 5,933,900 Jews