{"id":18,"date":"2010-04-13T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/worse-than-war\/uncategorized\/the-film-about-daniel-goldhagen\/18\/"},"modified":"2010-04-13T17:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T22:36:11","slug":"the-film-about-daniel-goldhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/worse-than-war\/featured\/the-film-about-daniel-goldhagen\/18\/","title":{"rendered":"About Daniel Jonah Goldhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/worse-than-war\/files\/2010\/03\/full-goldhagen.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Goldhagen\" width=\"610\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/worse-than-war\/files\/2010\/03\/full-goldhagen.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/worse-than-war\/files\/2010\/03\/full-goldhagen-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is the author of #1 international bestseller <em>Hitler\u2019s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust<\/em> (Vintage, 1997), published in fifteen languages, which was named by <em>Time<\/em> one of the two best non-fiction books of 1996 and for which he won Germany\u2019s prestigious triennial <em>Democracy Prize<\/em> in 1997.\u00a0 Hailed as \u201ca monumental achievement\u201d by the <em>Sunday Times of London<\/em>, and as \u201cmasterly\u2026one of those rare new works that merit the appellation landmark\u201d by the <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>Hitler&#8217;s Willing Executioners<\/em> may have generated more international discussion than any book in our time.\u00a0 He is also the author of the prizewinning <em>A Moral Reckoning: The Role of the Catholic Church in the Holocaust and Its Unfulfilled Duty of Repair<\/em> (Vintage, 2003), published in eight languages, and has published <em>Briefe an Goldhagen<\/em> (Letters to Goldhagen) (Siedler, 1997).\u00a0 The just published <em>Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity<\/em> (PublicAffairs 2009), which is already being published in eight languages, has been instantly greeted with great acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Goldhagen\u2019s essays and columns can be found in the<em> New York Times<\/em>, <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>, <em>New Republic<\/em>, <em>New York Sun<\/em>, <em>Forward<\/em>, <em>The Sunday Times<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>Die Zeit<\/em>, <em>S\u00fcddeutscher Zeitung<\/em>, <em>Die Welt,<\/em> <em>Le Monde<\/em>, <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>, <em>La Repubblica<\/em>, <em>El Pais<\/em>, <em>El Mundo<\/em>, <em>Ha\u2019aretz, Gazeta Wyborcza<\/em> and many other publications nationally and internationally.\u00a0 He has appeared on many national television and radio programs around the world, including <em>The Today Show<\/em>, <em>The O\u2019Reilly Factor<\/em>, <em>Charlie Rose<\/em>, has been profiled on television, including on <em>Dateline<\/em>, and in magazines, including the <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em> and the <em>New York Review of Books<\/em>, and has been, together with the eponymous international debate, the \u201cGoldhagen Debate,\u201d the subject of dozens of books. Twice named to the <em>Forward 50<\/em>, Goldhagen lectures frequently nationally and internationally on diverse subjects about the Holocaust, the Catholic Church and Jews, Israel, antisemitism today, and Political Islam.<\/p>\n<p>Goldhagen, born in 1959, received a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a professor in Harvard\u2019s Government and Social Studies departments until he decided to devote himself full time to writing.\u00a0 He is an affiliate of Harvard&#8217;s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and on the board of directors of Humanity in Action. For more information, please see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldhagen.com\" target=\"_blank\">goldhagen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy JTN Productions.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Jonah Goldhagen is the author of #1 international bestseller Hitler\u2019s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (Vintage, 1997), published in fifteen languages, which was named by Time one of the two best non-fiction books of 1996 and for which he won Germany\u2019s prestigious triennial Democracy Prize in 1997.\u00a0 Hailed as \u201ca monumental achievement\u201d 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