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LAW & CRIMINOLOGY / JUDAICA / EUROPEAN STUDIES
“A must read for anybody interested in the details of how a group of dogged
individuals uncovered the truth involving Swiss banks and the Holocaust.”
—Kenneth R. Feinberg, Georgetown University Law Center
In 1996 a team of lawyers filed a class-action complaint against Union Bank of Swit-
zerland, Swiss Bank Corporation, and Credit Suisse on behalf of Holocaust victims
accusing the banks of acting as the chief financiers for Nazi Germany. Through
detailed research, court transcripts, and interviews with politicians, attorneys,
historians, and survivors, Jane Schapiro shows how egos, personalities, and values
clashed in this complex and emotionally charged case.
“In her fascinating and moving book . . . Jane Schapiro, who attended the court
hearings, Senate and House Banking Committee hearings and press conferences,
provides a well-documented account of the litigation itself. Her first-hand knowl-
edge of these lawsuits is masterful.”—Barbara S. Cohen,
Jewish Book World
Jane Schapiro
is the author of essays and poems that have appeared in publica-
tions such as
The American Book Review
,
The American Scholar
,
Prairie Schooner
,
The Southern Review
,
The Sun
, and
Yankee
. She lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
MEMOIR / HISTORY / HOLOCAUST / GAY & LESBIAN INTEREST
“A historian who redefined the interpretation of European fascism and
Hitler’s Germany, and who made decisive contributions to the liberal
historiography of modern Europe. [George Mosse] was a man of uncommon
intellectual vivacity and a great teacher.”
—Saul Friedländer,
The New Republic
This memoir by George L. Mosse—a Holocaust survivor, a gay Jew, and one of the
great American historians—is a fascinating and fluent account of a remarkable life
that spanned three continents and many of the major events of the twentieth cen-
tury. It is guided by his belief that “what man is, only history tells.”
George L. Mosse
(1918–99) was the John C. Bascom Professor of European
History and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of
Wisconsin–Madison. He was also the Koebner Professor of History at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem and was selected as the first scholar-in-residence at the
Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
AUGUST
LC: 2003005663 KF
304 PP. 6 × 9
E-BOOK $14.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-19333-1
A trade imprint of the University
of Wisconsin Press
• 2003 CLOTH, UWP, ISBN 978-0-299-19330-0
FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION
SEPTEMBER
LC: 99–006425 D
240 PP. 6 × 9 30 B/W PHOTOS
E-BOOK $14.95 S ISBN 978-0-299-16583-3
George L. Mosse Series in Modern
European Cultural
and Intellectual History
Stanley G. Payne, David J. Sorkin,
and John S. Tortorice, Series Editors
• 1999 CLOTH, UWP, ISBN 978-0-299-16580-9
