Language:
English
Year of publication:
1969
Titel der Quelle:
American Jewish Historical Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
58 (1969) 330-346
Keywords:
Wagner, Robert F.
;
Legislators History 20th century
;
Jews History 1945-
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
Abstract:
An address delivered at the Temple Emanu-El Community House, New York, in 1968. Huthmacher spoke about his eponymous book published that same year, which dealt with Senator Wagner's liberal beliefs during his political career. As Huthmacher was addressing a Jewish audience, he also related to Wagner's attitude to and relations with Jews. Following the "Kristallnacht" events in Germany, Wagner (D-NY) co-sponsored with Representative Edith Nourse Rogers (R-MA) the Wagner-Rogers Bill to admit 20,000 Jewish refugees under the age of 14 to the United States from Nazi Germany, but the bill was rejected by the Congress in 1939. Wagner was a staunch opponent of Nazism and a lifelong friend of the Jewish people, supporting the creation of a Jewish state in Israel after World War II. Already in May 1945 he had stated in the Senate that "the remaining Jews of Europe should be allowed free access to Palestine as a matter of 'justice'.” He served in the Senate from 1932 to 1949, retiring due to ill health.
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