Anton Weiss-Wendt

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Anton Weiss-Wendt (born 1973) [1] is a Norwegian academic and historian. He has a PhD in Jewish history from Brandeis University and has worked at the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities since 2006. [2]

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  1. ↑ "Weiss-Wendt, Anton 1973-". WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  2. ↑ "Anton Weiss-Wendt". The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  3. ↑ Bergen, Doris L (27 January 2017). "Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust. By Anton Weiss-Wendt. Religion, Theology, and the Holocaust. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009. xxiii, 476 pp. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Maps. $45.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 70 (1): 175–176. doi:10.5612/slavicreview.70.1.0175.
  4. ↑ "Rutherford on Weiss-Wendt, 'Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust' | H-German | H-Net". H-Net . Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Silvennoinen, Oula (14 August 2010). "Murder Without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust (review)". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 24 (2): 302–304. ISSN   1476-7937.
  6. ↑ Berkowitz, Michael (December 2010). "Murder without Hatred: Estonians and the Holocaust". East European Jewish Affairs. 40 (3): 305–307. doi:10.1080/13501674.2010.530425.
  7. ↑ Holmila, Antero (20 November 2018). "Murder without hatred: Estonians and the holocaust, by Anton Weiss-Wendt, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2009, xxiii, 476pp., US$45.00 (hardback), ISBN-13: 978-0815632283". Nationalities Papers. 38 (6): 898–900. doi:10.1017/S0090599200040356.
  8. ↑ Book review: Anton Weiss-Wendt, Small-Town Russia: Childhood Memories of the Final Soviet Decade V Smolkin
  9. ↑ Earl, Hilary (2 August 2019). "On the Margins: Essays on the History of Jews in Estonia. By Anton Weiss-Wendt. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2017. xviii, 325 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Tables. $60.00, hard bound". Slavic Review. 78 (2): 544–545. doi:10.1017/slr.2019.122.
  10. ↑ Randall, Amy E. (April 2019). "A W -W . ". The American Historical Review. 124 (2): 632–634. doi: 10.1093/ahr/rhz092 .
  11. ↑ Drumbl, Mark A (2018). "The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide ConventionAnton Weiss-Wendt". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 32 (2): 297–300. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcy026.
  12. ↑ Hurst, Mark (12 February 2019). "The Soviet Union and the Gutting of the UN Genocide Convention. By Anton Weiss-Wendt. Critical Human Rights Series. Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2017. xil, 400 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $74.95, hard bound". Slavic Review. 77 (4): 1134–1135. doi: 10.1017/slr.2018.360 .


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