How long does it take to read The Destruction of the European Jews?
The Destruction of the European Jews by Raul Hilberg takes about 14 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 29 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1961. 790 pages, about 217,250 words.
29 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 21 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Based on the three-volume revised and definitive edition." "The standard text in the field ... [by] the pre-eminent scholar of the Holocaust." David S. Wyman, N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. "Examines the history of persecution against European Jews, discusses the definition of a Jew according to the German regime, and describes the processes through which Jews were eliminated during the Holocaust years."
Subjects: Case studies, Genocide, Histoire, Jews, Jews in Europe, Juifs
