Gordon J. Horwitz
Author of Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City
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Gordon J. Horwitz is Associate Professor of History at Illinois Wesleyan University.
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- Horwitz, Gordon J.
- Legal name
- Horwitz, Gordon John
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- Horwitz, Gordon
- Birthdate
- 1953-07-09
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- male
- Nationality
- USA
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- Etats-Unis
- Places of residence
- Bloomington, Illinois, USA
- Education
- Harvard University
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- Illinois Wesleyan University
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- Gordon J. Horwitz
is a professor of history
at Illinois Wesleyan University, where he teaches both modern global history and more specialized courses about Germany, the Holocaust, and Vienna. In 1990, he published In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen, a study of the way in which the civilian population surrounding a Nazi concentration camp in Austria related to the camp. In 2008, he published Ghettostadt: Łódź and the Making of a Nazi City. He was appointed to the Davis U. Merwin Endowed Professorship in History in 2015.
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Ghettostadt : Łódź and the making of a Nazi… by Gordon J. Horwitz
As the title suggests, Ghettostadt covers both the Lodz ghetto and the city itself, renamed Litzmannstadt under Nazi rule. And while Horowitz does go into detail to explain the terrible living conditions and daily struggles of life in the ghetto, he definitely fell short in detailing the non-ghetto aspect. It was mostly only used to show a contrast to how well-off the Germans of Litsmannstadt were. Considering the sub-title of the book implies there would be more detail on this aspect, it is a little disappointing he didn't further explore life in Litzmannstadt.… (more)
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