Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
גשר; כתב-עת לעניינים יהודיים
Angaben zur Quelle:
141 (תשס) 68-78
Keywords:
Jews History 1939-1945
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
Feingold, who fled Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, reviews his career as a Holocaust researcher and a historian of American Jewry. Discusses his book "The Politics of Rescue" (1970), and compares it to other works written in the 1960s on the American attitude toward the rescue of Jews during World War II, maintaining that this attitude should be viewed in its historical context. Jews and other foreigners were not popular in the U.S., and a majority of the Congress supported immigration restrictions. Roosevelt wanted the U.S. to enter the war, but had no desire to antagonize the American Congress, or the British government over its refusal to allow Jewish immigration to Palestine. Contends that the attitude of Roosevelt and others should be studied without condemnation. Discusses, also, trivialization and universalization of the Holocaust.
Note:
פורסם גם ב"הדאר" 80, י ו-יב (תשסא).
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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