Guenter Lewy is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of ten books, including The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (1999), The Cause that Failed: Communism in American Political Life (1990), and The Catholic Church and Nazi Germany (1964). Professor Lewy has received numerous distinctions and fellowships from organizations and institutions, including the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
