Saul S. Friedman (March 8, 1937 in
Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Uniontown is a city in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States, southeast of Pittsburgh and part of the Greater Pittsburgh Region. The population was 10,372 at the 2010 census, down from 12,422 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat and ...
– March 31, 2013 in
Canfield, Ohio
Canfield is a city in central Mahoning County, Ohio, United States. The population was 7,699 as of the 2020 census. A suburb about southwest of Youngstown, the city lies at the intersection of U.S. Routes 62 and 224 and is part of the Young ...
) was an American historian.
Life
Saul S. Friedman, son of Albert and Rebecca Friedman, came from a large Jewish family. He married Nancy Evans in 1964, they had three children, including the historian
Jonathan C. Friedman
Jonathan C. Friedman (born 1966) is a history professor and director of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Chester University
West Chester University (also known as West Chester, WCU, or WCUPA, and officially as West Chester University o ...
.
Friedman graduated from Kent State University (BA) and received his PhD in history from Ohio State University. He was appointed Professor of Jewish and Middle East History at
Youngstown State University
Youngstown State University (YSU or Youngstown State) is a public university in Youngstown, Ohio. It was founded in 1908 and is the easternmost member of the University System of Ohio.
The university is composed of six undergraduate colleges an ...
in 1969. In 2000 he founded the YSU Judaic and Holocaust Studies program. In 2006 he retired.
[In Memoriam: Saul S. Friedman, 1937–2013](_blank)
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Volume 27, Issue 2, 1 August 2013, Pages 384
Friedman was an anti-Semitism researcher and published on the Holocaust and the history of the Middle East. In addition to twelve books, he produced from the late 1980s documentaries, five of which were awarded regional Emmy Awards.
Books
Friedman authored twelve books.
Holocaust
*''No Haven for the Oppressed'' (1973).
*''Pogromchik'' (1976).
*''Amcha'' (1979).
*''The Oberammergau Passion Play'' (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984).
*''The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich'' (1992).
*''Holocaust Literature'' (1993).
*''A History of the Holocaust'' (2004).
Middle East
*''Land of Dust'' (1982).
*''Without Future'' (1989).
*''A History of the Middle East'' (2006).
Jews in America
*''The Incident at Massena'' (1978).
*''
Jews and the American Slave Trade'' (1998).
References
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1937 births
2013 deaths
Youngstown State University faculty
Historians of the Holocaust
Jewish historians
Historians of Europe