Lucy S. Dawidowicz

Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915–1990) was born in New York City, and attended Hunter College for her bachelor’s degree and Columbia University for her master’s. She traveled to Poland to work at the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1938, but fled just before Hitler’s invasion in 1939. After returning to the United States, she taught modern Jewish history at Yeshiva University, Stanford University, and SUNY Albany. Dawidowicz died in 1990 in her home in New York City.