Timothy Snyder is the Housum Professor of History at Yale University and a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is the author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, which received the literature award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Snyder is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement and a former contributing editor at The New Republic. He is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences, serves as the faculty advisor for the Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and sits on the advisory council of the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Times Editors' Choice
Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by The Washington
Post, The Economist, and Publishers Weekly
Finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize
Shortlisted for the 2016 Mark Lynton History Prize and the Council
on Foreign Relations' Arthur Ross Book Award
Praise for Black Earth:
"Clear-eyed . . . Arresting . . . An unorthodox and provocative
account . . . Snyder is admirably relentless." —The New
Yorker
"Black Earth is mesmerizing . . . Remarkable . . . Gripping . . .
Disturbingly vivid . . . Mr. Snyder is sometimes mordant, often
shocked, always probing.” —The Wall Street Journal
"Revelatory . . . Evocative . . . Most relevant today." —The
Atlantic
“A very fine book . . . Snyder identifies the conditions that
allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares . . . He
certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.” —The New
Republic
“An unflinching look at the Holocaust . . . Mr. Snyder is a rising
public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past
and present.” —The New York Times
“Snyder’s historical account has a vital contemporary lesson . . .
It’s a testament to his intellectual and moral resources that he
can so deeply contemplate this horrific past in ways that
strengthen his commitment to building a future based on law,
rights, and citizenship.” —The Washington Post
"Black Earth elucidates human catastrophe in regions with which a
Western audience needs to become familiar.” —The New York Times
Book Review
“An impressive reassessment of the Holocaust, which steers an
assured course [and] challenges readers to reassess what they think
they know and believe . . . Black Earth will prove uncomfortable
reading for many who hew to cherished but mythical elements of
Holocaust history.” —The Economist
“Excellent in every respect . . . Although I read widely about the
Holocaust, I learned something new in every chapter. The
multilingual Snyder has mined contemporaneous Eastern European
sources that are often overlooked.” —Stephen Carter,
Bloomberg
“In Black Earth, a book of the greatest importance, Snyder now
forces us to look afresh at these monumental crimes. Written with
searing intellectual honesty, his new study goes much deeper than
Bloodlands in its analysis, showing how the two regimes fed off
each other.” —Antony Beevor, The Sunday Times
"Snyder is both a great historian and a lively journalist . . . If
we understood the Nazi horror more clearly, we might be less
susceptible to those who misremember the past to mislead us in the
present. Snyder's Black Earth, like Bloodlands before it, is an
indispensable contribution to that clearer
understanding." —Commentary
“Snyder writes elegant, lucid, powerful prose. He has read widely
in literatures not widely read. In Black Earth he has synthesized
previous work into a narrative of the Holocaust that recasts the
familiar in unfamiliar terms that challenge the thinking of experts
and non-experts alike.” —Haaretz
“No matter how many histories, biographies, and memoirs you may
have already read, Black Earth will compel you to see the Holocaust
in a wholly new and revelatory light.” —The Jewish Journal
"In this unusual and innovative book, Timothy Snyder takes a fresh
look at the intellectual origins of the Holocaust, placing Hitler's
genocide firmly in the politics and diplomacy of 1930s Europe.
Black Earth is required reading for anyone who cares about this
difficult period of history." —Anne Applebaum
“Timothy Snyder's bold new approach to the Holocaust links Hitler's
racial worldview to the destruction of states and the quest for
land and food. This insight leads to thought-provoking and
disturbing conclusions for today's world. Black Earth uses the
recent past's terrible inhumanity to underline an urgent need to
rethink our own future." —Ian Kershaw
"Part history, part political theory, Black Earth is a learned and
challenging reinterpretation." —Henry Kissinger
"Black Earth is provocative, challenging, and an important addition
to our understanding of the Holocaust. As he did in
Bloodlands, Timothy Snyder makes us rethink those things we were
sure we already knew." —Deborah Lipstadt
“Timothy Snyder’s Black Earth is not only a powerful exposure of
the horrors of the Holocaust but also a compelling dissection of
the Holocaust’s continuing threat.” —Zbigniew Brzezinski
"Timothy Snyder argues, eloquently and convincingly, that the world
is still susceptible to the inhuman impulses that brought about the
Final Solution. This book should be read as admonition by
presidents, prime ministers, and in particular by anyone who
believes that the past is somehow behind us." —Jeffrey
Goldberg
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