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Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor Emeritus and a provost at New York's Columbia University

Fritz Richard Stern (February 2, 1926 – May 18, 2016) was a German-born American historian of German history, Jewish history and historiography. He was a University Professor Emeritus and a provost at New York's Columbia University. His work focused on the complex relationships between Germans and Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries and on the rise of National Socialism in Germany during the first half of the 20th century.

Dreams and Delusions: Th. .has been added to your Cart. Stern later was awarded one of Germany's highest literary prizes for his books on German history, the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels, sort of the Nobel Peace Prize for writers.

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His works include The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present; Dreams and Delusions: National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past; Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire, which was nominated for a National Book Award.

His works include The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present; Dreams and Delusions: National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past; Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichröder, and the Building of the German Empire, which was nominated for a National Book Award; The Politics of Cultural Despair; and The Failure of Illiberalism.

Dreams and Delusions : National Socialism in the Drama of the German Past. Reflections on German history of the 20th century, from Kaiser Wilhelm to the years immediately preceding the re-unification, by a liberal Columbia historian with the background of a Jewish German refugee. For me the core of the book, apart from the essay on the temptations of nazi-ism for normal people, is the trio of bio essays on 3 emigrants, only one of whom returned and made his name 'at home'. This is a brilliant, original work of history. com User, January 15, 1999.

In this collection of lectures and articles, Stern assays continuities and contradictions of modern German history, raising anew the question of why so many Germans were seduced by National Socialism. In a piece titled "The Burden of Success" he argues that until the advent of Hitler the story of German Jewry was one of triumph"partial, embattled, vilified, but triumph nevertheless.

Fritz Stern writes more beautifully with every passing year

Fritz Stern writes more beautifully with every passing year. This collection of essays, written over the past decade, revolves around the eternal "German question," and historians' efforts to grasp it. Stern writes with all the poignancy of one who loves German civilization deeply and is determined to fathom how it could have done such terrible violence to others, and to itself. His quest for understanding goes forward with ever-deepening insight, humanity and fine moral judgment

Fritz Stern, a German-born historian and longtime professor at Columbia .

In his first book, The Politics of Cultural Despair: A Study in the Rise of the Germanic Ideology, published in 1961, Dr. Stern shed light on the intellectual climate that made Germany receptive to Nazi ideology.

This highly praised collection of essays by eminent historian Fritz Stern ponders the monumental promise and catastrophe of twentieth-century German history.