Stefan Maechler
Stefan Mächler | |
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| Born | 30 May 1957 Baden, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Historian, author |
| Genre | Modern history |
| Notable works | Der Fall Wilkomirski |
Stefan Maechler (born 30 May 1957) is a Swiss historian and expert on antisemitism and Switzerland's treatment of Holocaust refugees during and after World War II.
Biography
[edit]Education
[edit]Mächler was born on 30 May 1957 in Baden, Switzerland.[1] He studied history and German literature at the University of Zurich.
Wilkomirski affair
[edit]He was commissioned by Schocken Books, a publisher specializing in judaica, to conduct a full-scale investigation into the life of writer Binjamin Wilkomirski, whose memoir Fragments, published by Schocken in 1996, sparked international controversy.[2] Maechler studied hundreds of personal documents, and interviewed eyewitnesses and families of survivors in seven countries. He was given unrestricted access to government files, and discovered facts that completely refuted Wilkomirski's bestselling book as a forgery.[3] Maechler's findings were published in a book called The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth by Schocken Books, New York, in 2001 (496 pp.); the original German title was Der Fall Wilkomirski: über die Wahrheit einer Biographie, published by Pendo Verlag AG, Zurich, 2000.
Personal life
[edit]Maechler lives and works in Zürich.[4][5][3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Maechler, Stefan 1957". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Stefan Maechler (2009). The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth (Google Books, preview). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307493248. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - ^ a b Rick Perlstein (April 30, 2001). "A Holocaust Fraud Exposed, a Peccadillo Papered Over". Arts and Culture. Observer Media. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
Author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus by Hill & Wang.
- ^ Lawrence Birken (2002). "The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth by Stefan Maechler". Shofar. 21 (1). JSTOR: 174–176. doi:10.1353/sho.2002.0092. JSTOR 42944065. S2CID 144940722.
- ^ Random House (2015). The Wilkomirski Affair. A Study in Biographical Truth. Written by Stefan Maechler (Look Inside). Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-8052-1135-1. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
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References
[edit]- Good Reads, The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth by Stefan Maechler, John E. Woods (Translator). Good Reads: Book. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- Alibris, BOOKS by Stefan Maechler. The Wilkomirski Affair: A Study in Biographical Truth 2015 Alibris for Libraries. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
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