Istvan Deak
Istvan Deak is Seth Low Professor Emeritus at Columbia and the author most recently of Essays on Hitler’s Europe. (June 2008)
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September 25, 2008: 'Hitler's Secret Plot' (letter)
June 12, 2008: Did Hitler Plan to Kidnap the Pope?
A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman
June 28, 2007: 'Did the Revolution Have to Fail?': An Exchange
April 26, 2007: The Hungarian Revolution: An Exchange
March 1, 2007: Did the Revolution Have to Fail?
Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising by Erich Lessing, with texts by George Konrad, François Fejtö, Erich Lessing, and Nicolas Bauquet
Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution by Victor Sebestyen
Failed Illusions: Moscow, Washington, Budapest, and the 1956 Hungarian Revolt by Charles Gati
A Good Comrade: János Kádár, Communism and Hungary by Roger Gough
The Hungarian Revolution of 1956: Myths and Realities by László Eörsi, translated from the Hungarian by Mario D. Fenyo
October 19, 2006: Scandal in Budapest
July 14, 2005: Giants at Heart (letter)
March 10, 2005: Survival of the Smallest
In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe—A Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev
September 23, 2004: Improvising the Holocaust
The Origins of the Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939–March 1942 by Christopher R. Browning, with contributions by Jürgen Matthäus
September 25, 2003: Stranger in Hell
Fateless by Imre Kertész, translated from the Hungarian by Christopher C. Wilson and Katharina M. Wilson
March 13, 2003: Jews and Catholics: An Exchange
December 19, 2002: Jews and Catholics
A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
September 26, 2002: The Crime of the Century
Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century Europe by Norman M. Naimark
In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth Century edited by Omer Bartov and Phyllis Mack
Modern Hatreds: The Symbolic Politics of Ethnic War by Stuart J. Kaufman
The Massacre in History edited by Mark Levene and Penny Roberts
February 14, 2002: Jews in Poland (letter)
November 29, 2001: Bruno Schultz's Frescoes (letter)
November 15, 2001: Artful Dodger
Masquerade: Dancing around Death in Nazi-Occupied Hungary by Tivadar Soros, edited and translated from the Esperanto by Humphrey Tonkin, with forewords by Paul and George Soros
November 15, 2001: 'Neighbors' (letter)
September 20, 2001: 'Neighbors': An Exchange
May 31, 2001: Heroes and Victims
Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland Jan T. Gross
The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust Tzvetan Todorov, translated from the French by Arthur Denner
The Jehovah's Witnesses and the Nazis: Persecution, Deportation, and Murder, 1933–1945 Michel Reynaud and Sylvie Graffard, translated from the French by James A. Moorhouse, with an introduction by Michael Berenbaum
October 19, 2000: Duels in the Sunshine (letter)
October 5, 2000: Injustice in Austria (letter)
July 20, 2000: Strangers at Home
Sunshine a film directed by István Szabó
June 15, 2000: The Pope, the Nazis, and the Jews' (letter)
March 23, 2000: The Pope, the Nazis & the Jews
Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII by John Cornwell
The Vatican and the Red Flag: The Struggle for the Soul of Eastern Europe by Jonathan Luxmoore, by Jolanta Babiuch
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965 by Michael Phayer
Controversial Concordats: The Vatican's Relations with Napoleon, Mussolini, and Hitler edited by Frank J. Coppa
The Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI edited by Georges Passelecq, and Bernard Suchecky, Translated from the French by Steven Rendall, with an introduction by Garry Wills
April 8, 1999: Survivor in a Sea of Barbarism
Hungary's Admiral on Horseback: Miklós Horthy, 1918-1944 by Thomas Sakmyster
November 5, 1998: Scholars Against Milosevic (letter)
September 25, 1997: 'Memories of Hell': An Exchange
June 26, 1997: Memories of Hell
Facing the Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps by Tzvetan Todorov, translated by Arthur Denner, translated by Abigail Pollak
Am I a Murderer? Testament of a Jewish Ghetto Policeman by Calel Perechodnik, edited and translated by Frank Fox
Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo, translated by Rosette C. Lamont, with an introduction by Lawrence L. Langer
Death Comes in Yellow: Skarzysko-Kamienna Slave Labor Camp by Felicja Karay, translated by Sara Kitai
The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp by Wolfgang Sofsky, translated by William Templer
The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak: Five Notebooks from the Lódz Ghetto edited by Alan Adelson, translated by Kamil Turowski
Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War Against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939-1945 by Richard C. Lukas
Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide edited with an introduction by Alan S. Rosenbaum, with a foreword by Israel W. Charny
Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka by Richard Glazar, translated by Roslyn Theobald, foreword by Wolfgang Benz
December 21, 1995: Separated at Birth
Budapest and New York: Studies in Metropolitan Transformation, 1870–1930 edited by Thomas Bender, edited by Carl E. Schorske
August 11, 1994: Post-Post-Communist Hungary
July 14, 1994: Nazis and Resisters (letter)
March 24, 1994: 'Misjudgment at Nuremberg' (letter)
January 13, 1994: Judgment at Nuremberg: An Exchange
November 4, 1993: The Nuremberg Precedent (letter)
October 7, 1993: Misjudgment at Nuremberg
The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir by Telford Taylor
A Crime of Vengeance: An Armenian Struggle for Justice by Edward Alexander
Ethics and Airpower in World War II: The British Bombing of German Cities by Stephen A. Garrett
Remembering in Vain: The Klaus Barbie Trial and Crimes Against Humanity by Alain Finkielkraut, translated by Roxanne Lapidus, by Sima Godfrey, Introduction by Alice Y. Kaplan
November 5, 1992: Holocaust Heroes
Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism by Alexander Stille
The Italian Refuge: Rescue of Jews During the Holocaust edited by Ivo Herzer
All or Nothing: The Axis and the Holocaust 1941–1943 by Jonathan Steinberg
Norway's Response to the Holocaust: A Historical Perspective by Samuel Abrahamsen
Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas
'My Brother's Keeper?': Recent Polish Debates on the Holocaust edited by Antony Polonsky
The Survival of Love: Memoirs of a Resistance Officer by Józef Garlinski
The Yugoslav Auschwitz and the Vatican: The Croatian Massacre of the Serbs during World War II by Vladimir Dedijer, translated by Harvey L. Kendall
October 22, 1992: Witnesses to Evil
In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec
Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders: The Jewish Catastrophe, 1933–1945 by Raul Hilberg
A Mosaic of Victims: Non-Jews Persecuted and Murdered by the Nazis edited by Michael Berenbaum
Out of the Inferno: Poles Remember the Holocaust edited by Richard C. Lukas
October 8, 1992: Strategies of Hell
'The Good Old Days': The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders edited by Ernst Klee, by Willi Dressen, by Volker Riess, translated by Deborah Burnstone, foreword by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz by Rudolf Höss, edited by Steven Paskuly, translated by Andrew Pollinger
In the Shadow of Death: Living Outside the Gates of Mauthausen by Gordon J. Horwitz
Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany by Peter Wyden
Outcast: A Jewish Girl in Wartime Berlin by Inge Deutschkron, translated by Jean Steinberg
In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen by Nechama Tec
July 16, 1992: Democracy in Romania? (letter)
May 28, 1992: Survival in Romania (letter)
March 5, 1992: Survivors
The Romanians: A History by Vlad Georgescu, edited by Matei Calinescu, translated by Alexandra Bley-Vroman, epilogue by Matei Calinescu, by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Jagendorf's Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941–1944 by Siegfried Jagendorf, introduction and commentaries by Aron Hirt-Manheimer
'Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite': The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus by Edward Behr, foreword by Ryszard Kapuscinski
National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania by Katherine Verdery
The Fall of Tyrants: The Incredible Story of One Pastor's Witness, the People of Romania, and the Overthrow of Ceausescu by Laszlo Tokes, with David Porter
The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution by Andrei Codrescu
Romania: The Entangled Revolution International Studies, Praeger by Nestor Ratesh, foreword by Edward N. Luttwak
Since the Revolution: Human Rights in Romania
April 25, 1991: Who Saved Jews? An Exchange
January 31, 1991: Lithuania and the Jews (letter)
November 8, 1990: Heroism in Hell
Surviving the Holocaust: The Kovno Ghetto Diary by Avraham Tory, translated by Jerzy Michalowicz
September 27, 1990: Legends of King Christian: Another Exchange
March 29, 1990: The Legend of King Christian: An Exchange
February 1, 1990: 'The Incomprehensible Holocaust': An Exchange
December 21, 1989: The Incomprehensible Holocaust: An Exchange
September 28, 1989: The Incomprehensible Holocaust
Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? The "Final Solution" in History by Arno J. Mayer
The Kraków Ghetto and the Plaszów Camp Remembered by Malvina Graf, foreword and notes by George M. Kren
Some Dare to Dream: Frieda Frome's Escape From Lithuania by Frieda Frome, foreword by Robert Abzug
Double Identity: A Memoir by Zofia S. Kubar
Life With a Star by Jirí Weil, translated by Ruzena Kovarikova, by Roslyn Schloss, preface by Philip Roth
From That Place and Time: A Memoir, 1938–1947 by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
The Jews and the Poles in World War II by Stefan Korbonski
And I Am Afraid of My Dreams by Wanda Póltawska, translated by Mary Craig
Doctor #117641: A Holocaust Memoir by Louis J. Micheels M.D., foreword by Albert J. Solnit M.D.
Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Step-Sister of Anne Frank by Eva Schloss, with Evelyn Julia Kent
Unbroken: Resistance and Survival in the Concentration Camps by Len Crome
Lódz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege compiled and edited by Alan Adelson, by Robert Lapides, with annotations and bibliographical notes by Marek Web
Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman
The Holocaust in History by Michael R. Marrus
Unanswered Questions: Nazi Germany and the Genocide of the Jews edited by François Furet
Modernity and the Holocaust by Zygmunt Bauman
March 16, 1989: Fun City
Budapest 1900: A Historical Portrait of a City and Its Culture by John Lukacs
January 19, 1989: Razing Romania (letter)
November 24, 1988: 'Hungary's New Twist': An Exchange
August 18, 1988: Hungary: The New Twist
Hungary and the Soviet Bloc by Charles Gati
Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948–1954 by George H. Hodos
János Kádár: Selected Speeches and Interviews with an introductory biography by L. Gyurkó
1956: Counter-Revolution in Hungary: Words and Weapons by János Berecz, translated by István Butykay, translation revised by Charles Coutts
Cry Hungary! Uprising 1956 by Reg Gadney, introduction by George Mikes
The Velvet Prison: Artists Under State Socialism by Miklós Haraszti, translated by Katalin Landesmann, by Stephen Landesmann, with the help of Steve Wasserman, foreword by George Konrád
March 12, 1987: The Convert
Georg Lukács: Record of a Life—An Autobiographical Sketch edited by István Eörsi, translated by Rodney Livingstone
Georg Lukács and His Generation: 1900–1918 by Mary Gluck
The Young Lukács by Lee Congdon
Georg Lukács: His Life in Pictures and Documents compiled by Éva Fekete, by Éva Karádi
Georg Lukács, Karl Mannheim und der Sonntagskreis edited by Éva Karádi, by Erzsébet Vezér, Translated from the Hungarian by Albrecht Friedrich
Georg Lukács: Selected Correspondence, 1902–1920, dialogues with Weber, Simmel, Buber, Mannheim, and Others selected, edited, translated, and annotated by Judith Marcus, by Zoltán Tar, with an introduction by Zoltán Tar
February 27, 1986: The Writing on the Wall (letter)
November 7, 1985: A Conglomerate Country
The National Question in Yugoslavia by Ivo Banac
January 17, 1985: Fascism and Fanaticism (letter)
May 31, 1984: How Guilty Were the Germans?
The Nazi Voter: The Social Foundations of Fascism in Germany, 1919–1933 by Thomas Childers
The Germans by Gordon A. Craig
Modern Germany: Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century by V. R. Berghahn
Popular Opinion and Political Dissent in the Third Reich: Bavaria, 1933–1945 by Ian Kershaw
The Nazi Movement in Baden, 1920–1945 by Johnpeter Horst Grill
Hitler, Germans, and the 'Jewish Question' by Sarah Gordon
The Nazi Party: A Social Profile of Members and Leaders, 1919–1945 by Michael H. Kater
The Rise of Hitler: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Germany, 1918–1933 by Simon Taylor
The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922–1945 by William Sheridan Allen
Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929–1933 by Eve Rosenhaft
The Black Corps: The Structure and Power Struggles of the Nazi SS by Robert Lewis Koehl
June 2, 1983: What Was Fascism? (letter)
March 3, 1983: What Was Fascism?
Who Were the Fascists: Social Roots of European Fascism edited by Stein Ugelvik Larsen, edited by Bernt Hagtvet, edited by Jan Petter Myklebust
Who Voted for Hitler? by Richard F. Hamilton
May 27, 1982: Genocide in Hungary: An Exchange
February 4, 1982: Could the Hungarian Jews Have Survived?
The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary by Randolph L. Braham
February 19, 1981: A Radical Field Marshal
The Survival of the Habsburg Empire: Radetzky, the Imperial Army, and the Class War, 1848 by Alan Sked
Books by Istvan Deak
Essays on Hitler's Europe (2001)
Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918 (1990)
The Lawful Revolution: Louis Kossuth and the Hungarians, 1848-1849 (1979)
Weimar Germany's Left-wing Intellectuals: A Political History of the Weltbühne and Its Circle (1968)