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Goldhagen reached international attention and broad criticism as the author of two books about the holocaust. Daniel jonah goldhagen project gutenberg selfpublishing. The role of the catholic church in the holocaust and its unfulfilled duty of repair,by daniel jonah goldhagen, is the second best book about european antisemitism history, of all times. Now he brings his formidable powers of research and argument to bear on the catholic church and its complicity in the destruction of european jewry. Daniel jonah goldhagen was awarded germanys democracy prize for hitlers willing executioners. The son of a distinguished holocaust scholar at harvard turns his doctoral dissertation, which won the 1994 award of the american political science association, into a book published and lavishly promoted by one of our most prestigious houses. One of the books many virtues is that it insists on placing antisemitism in a larger context.
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