Raul Hilberg

Raul Hilberg (June 2, 1926 – August 4, 2007) was an Austrian-born American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the world's preeminent scholar of the Holocaust, and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus, The Destruction of the European Jews, is regarded as a seminal study of the Nazi Final Solution. Hilberg was born to a Polish-Romanian Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. Hilberg was very much a loner, pursuing solit... More

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  • Jun 2, 1926

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  • Aug 4, 2007 (age 81 years)

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National Jewish Book Award for Holocaust Winners

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