Talk:Lucy Dawidowicz

message: The spelling Dawidowicz is used by the US Library of Congress (19 entries) and in the Encyclopaedia of the Holocaust published by Yad Vashem (English edition: Macmillan, 1990). In both, she's noted as Lucy S. Dawidowicz -- and if I recall correctly, this is the form of the author's name in the publication of her works (some of which I can check at the library later this week). If I can substantiate by corroborating this form, I'm going to suggest it for a rename of the article.
After the initial paragraph giving her maiden name and her parents' names, the surname by which Lucy S. Dawidowicz is most widely known -- from her many publications and widespread citations of her works -- is appropriate for use throughout the article, rather than referring to her by her maiden name in the biographical material up to the date of her marriage. -- Deborahjay 04:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of surname; consistency within the article 

message: Besides for some spelling issues, I have removed the following lines:
"This was particularly evident in the case of Davies who at no point tried shift the blame of the Holocaust away form Nazi Germany, but mealy noted that in the case of Poland anti-Semitism was due in large part on foreign antagonism in the country."
for the these reasons. First, the way that line was written to imply that Dawidowicz had unjustly slandered Norman Davies with the anti-Semitic label, which may or may not be true, but needs some sources before it is presented as a fact. Second, the sentence is misleading because the issue is not Davies trying to shift the blame for the Shoah from the Germans, but rather the extent and level of anti-Semitism with the Gentile population of Poland. Davies argues that anti-Semitism was very limited in pre-war and war-time Poland while Dawidowicz argued for the opposite case. Third, I am not certain the line what anti-Smeitism in Poland being caused by "foreign antagonism" is supposed to mean with since there are several possible interpretations, but regardless of what was meant here, it is a POV line that lacks attribution. --A.S. Brown (talk) 05:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Davies & POV

message: I am surprised to find no mention of Davidowicz' disagreements with Raul Hilberg (The Destruction of The European Jews).12.135.55.162 (talk) 00:20, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Raul Hilberg

message: We get lots of material on Davidowicz's criticisms of other historians, but pretty much nothing on other historians' criticisms of Davidowicz, even though her views are not, in fact, the mainstream scholarly views on the Holocaust. john k (talk) 15:37, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms of Davidowicz 

message: Regarding this passage:
Weinreich escaped the Holocaust because he went to New York to establish a branch of the YIVO there before World War II, but Kalmanovich and Reisen perished. Dawidowicz had been close to Kalmanovich and his family, whom she reportedly described as being her real parents.[3] From 1940 until 1946, Dawidowicz worked as an assistant to a research director at the New York City office of the YIVO. 
1. Max Weinreich did not escape the Holocaust because he went to New York to establish...
Rather, during the summer of 1939 he was on the way (with his elder son, Uriel) from Wilno to a conference of linguists in Brussels and stopped in Copenhagen because he and two Danish linguists (Viggo Brøndal and another whose name I do not remember at the moment) made up to meet there and then proceed together to Brussels. While Weinreich and his son were in Copenhagen, news reached Denmark that Germany had begun its invasion of Poland, as a result of which the conference was cancelled and Weinreich realized that returning to Wilno was impossible and undesirable. From Copenhagen Weinreich and his son eventually reached New York City. Later his wife and younger son joined them in New York City
2.  Since the branch of the YIVO in New York City (called amopteyl) had been founded in October 1925 (https://judaism_enc.enacademic.com/20944/yivo), some fifteen years before he fled to New York City, the purpose of his trip could not have been to found it.
3.  Regarding "Dawidowicz worked as an assistant to a research director." There was only one research director and it was Max Weinreich.
Searching for "Max Weinreich AND Copenhagen" will bring up many websites with information about the circumstances of his trip to Copenhagen and stay there, including the reminiscences of a Danish Jew who knew the details at first hand.S. Valkemirer (talk) 23:10, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistakes in the passage beginning "Weinreich escaped..."