ISBN:
0253338093
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 314 S.
Year of publication:
2000
DDC:
973.04/924
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Geschichte 1933-1942
;
Juden
;
Politik
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Public opinion
;
Jews Attitudes
;
Jews Politics and government 19th century
;
Jews Politics and government 20th century
;
Public opinion
;
Öffentliche Meinung
;
Politik
;
Juden
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
USA
;
Deutschland
;
USA
;
Politik
;
Juden
;
Geschichte
;
Deutschland
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Geschichte 1933-1942
;
USA
;
Juden
;
Öffentliche Meinung
;
Deutschland
;
Judenverfolgung
;
Geschichte 1933-1942
Abstract:
"What did American Jews do to help the threatened Jewish communities of Europe as the Nazi grip tightened in the 1930s? Why didn't they do more to help Jews leave Europe and bring them to America
Abstract:
Probing these questions, Gulie Ne'eman Arad finds that, more than the events themselves, what was instrumental in dictating and shaping the American Jews' response to Nazism was the dilemma posed by their desire for acceptance by American society, on the one hand, and their commitment to community solidarity, on the other. When American Jews were faced with the desperate plight of European Jews after Hitler's accession to power, they were hesitant to press the case for immigration for fear of raising doubts about their patriotism
Abstract:
In this gripping and thoroughly researched account, Arad places the American Jewish encounter with Nazism within the overall history of the American Jewish experience from the mid-nineteenth century and offers a persuasive explanation of the ambivalent political response of American Jewish leaders in dealing with the Roosevelt administration."--BOOK JACKET
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