Léon Poliakov

French historian (1910-1997) · France · On the map · Writers · Died at 87

Léon Poliakov was a French historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and antisemitism. He is the author of The Aryan Myth.

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1997Died8 December 19971989Knight of the Legion of HonourAward1981Francine and Antoine Bernheim Award for Arts, Literature and ScienceAward1975Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardsAward1971Bernard Lecache PrizeAward1910Born25 November 1910

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