弗里德兰德尔出生于布拉格，1939年逃往法国，1948年移居以色列。他现在在洛杉矶的加利福尼亚大学讲授历史。　　1997年，索尔·弗里德兰德尔的《迫害的年代：纳粹德国与犹太人，1933一1939》出版发行，这是他的两卷历史著作《纳粹德国与犹太人》的第一卷。他在前言中说．他的意图是”从历史角度真实记录大屠杀．把凶手实施的政策、周围社会的态度和受害者的世界放在一个完整的框架里”。弗里德兰德尔的第二卷《灭绝的年代：纳粹德国与犹太人．1939—1945》也是一样。这本书如今已经成为记述纳粹德国大规模谋杀欧洲犹太人的权威历史著作。

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This epic book completes the richest and fullest study yet made of the Nazis' persecution of the Jews. Based on a vast scholarly literature, it also incorporates original research and personal letters, diaries, etc. Acclaim for Volume 1: "This will be the standard work for many years to come" (Daniel Johnson, The Times) "There have been many books about Nazism's persecution of the Jews, but none as magisterial or comprehensive as this" (Richard Evans, Sunday Telegraph) "The merits of this work are many; it is easily the best book of a distinguished historian. It is based on a great variety of sources, published and unpublished, and the judgement of the author cannot be faulted on any major issue...This is a very good, very important book. It needed to be written before the last historians disappear who, because of the date and place of their birth and their personal experience, know certain things in their bones about the period of the Holocaust." (Walter Lacquer, Los Angeles Times) "Saul Friedlander is the most astute, sophisticated and stylish historian of the Holocaust working in any language today." (Michael Burleigh)