Robert Jay Lifton, Pioneering Scholar of Nazi Doctors and Jewish Memory, Dies at 99 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99

Robert Jay Lifton, whose work on genocide psychology reshaped Holocaust studies and Jewish thought for decades, died at his home in Massachusetts at 99.

Robert Jay Lifton, psychohistorian who wrote books on war and violence, dies at 99 - The Boston Globe

Dr. Lifton’s best-known book, “Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima” (1968), won the National Book Award.

Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 98

(JTA) — Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist and public intellectual whose groundbreaking work on the psychology of genocide shaped Holocaust and Jewish studies for the past 40 years, died on Thursday at his home in Truro, Massachusetts. He was 99. Lifton, who was raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, devoted his career to exploring the human capacity for both cruelty and resilience. His 1986 book “The Nazi Doctors…

Robert Jay Lifton, pioneering scholar of Nazi doctors and Jewish memory, dies at 99 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Robert Jay Lifton, the psychiatrist and public intellectual whose groundbreaking work on the psychology of genocide shaped Holocaust and Jewish studies for the past 40 years, died on Thursday at his home in Truro, Massachusetts. He was 99. Lifton, who was raised in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, devoted his career to exploring the human capacity for both cruelty and resilience. His 1986 book “The Nazi Doctors: Medica…

Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton Dies at 99; Explored Human Darkness, from Nazi Doctors to Hiroshima

The celebrated psychiatrist and author Robert Jay Lifton has died at the age of 99. His studies on the effects of nuclear war, terrorism and genocide, including the books Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima and The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, shaped psychological understandings of the effects of mass violence. He appeared on Democracy Now! several times, including in 2017 to discuss Trump during his first term.

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