''For the football player of the same name see
Dave Wyman.''
'David S. Wyman' (
1929-) is the author of several books on the responses of the United States to
Nazi Germany's persecution of and programs to exterminate Jews.
Wyman received his A.B. in history from Boston University and a history Ph.D. from Harvard University. From 1966 until his retirement in 1991 Wyman taught in the History Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he also chaired the Judaic studies program. Professor Wyman holds honorary doctoral degrees from Hebrew Union College and Yeshiva University, both in in New York City. He is currently chairman of the
David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C.
Major publications
★ ''Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941'' (University of Massachusetts Press, 1968);
★ ''
The Abandonment Of The Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945'' (Pantheon, 1984);
editor of:
★ ''America and the Holocaust'' (thirteen volumes of the documents used in ''The Abandonment of the Jews'' (Garland, 1990);
★ ''The World Reacts to the Holocaust'' (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
External links
★
Brief biography at the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies