Nancy Sinkoff, a professor of Jewish studies and history at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, has dedicated her research to bringing the life of Lucy S. Dawidowicz back into the public eye. Dawidowicz, a trailblazing historian in the field now known as Holocaust studies, was a controversial figure who argued that Adolf Hitler’s plan to exterminate the Jewish people didn’t evolve over time, but instead was his intended goal before he even rose to power, and that German support for Hitler was driven by antisemitism that existed for centuries. Bookended by WWI and the end of Soviet Communism, Sinkoff presents Dawidowicz’s story as a window into 20th-century Jewish life. || Harvey Shapiro Boston