Richard breitman biography

American historian (born 1947)

Richard David Breitman (born 1947) is an American historian best known for his study of The Holocaust.^{[citation needed]}

Richard Breitman is an American historian who has written extensively on modern German history, the Holocaust, American immigration and refugee policy, and intelligence during and after World War 2.

He has spent his career in the history department at American University in Washington, D.C., from which he retired as distinguished professor emeritus in 2015.

Richard breitman biography

He has written or co-authored twelve books and served for twenty-five years as editor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a scholarly journal owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Education and career

Breitman was born in 1947, in Connecticut.

His grandparents had emigrated to the U.S. from Odessa and Krakow in 1905 and settled in Hartford. His parents were American-born, his father, Saul, a businessman, his mother, Gloria (