In this gripping and thoroughly researched account, Arad contextualizes the American Jewish encounter with Nazism within the overall history of the American Jewish experience from the mid-19th century and offers a persuasive explanation of the ambivalent political response of American Jewish leaders in dealing with the Roosevelt administration.
In this gripping and thoroughly researched account, Arad contextualizes the American Jewish encounter with Nazism within the overall history of the American Jewish experience from the mid-19th century and offers a persuasive explanation of the ambivalent political response of American Jewish leaders in dealing with the Roosevelt administration.
Gulie Ne'eman Arad teaches American and European history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She is author of numerous articles and coeditor of the journal History & Memory.
Inhaltsangabe
Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction Part 1: Incoming 1. "Amerika du hast es besser": The German-Jewish Immigrants in America 2. A Community Transformed: The Influx from the East Part 2: A Growing Divide¿"We" and "They" 3. Hard Times in the "Goldene Medine": The Jewish Question in the American Context 4. A Crisis of Faith: Anti-Semitism in Weimar Germany Part 3: A Scant Political Voice, 1933-35 5. The Jewish Leaders vs. the Voice of America 6. Cooptation of Protest: Trying to "Break Through" 7. Jewish Power: The Demise of a Myth Part 4: Crisis and Patriotism, 1936-1942 8. FDR: "The Greatest Friend We Have" 9. "On Being an American": (In Place of a) Conclusion
Preliminary Table of Contents: Introduction Part 1: Incoming 1. "Amerika du hast es besser": The German-Jewish Immigrants in America 2. A Community Transformed: The Influx from the East Part 2: A Growing Divide¿"We" and "They" 3. Hard Times in the "Goldene Medine": The Jewish Question in the American Context 4. A Crisis of Faith: Anti-Semitism in Weimar Germany Part 3: A Scant Political Voice, 1933-35 5. The Jewish Leaders vs. the Voice of America 6. Cooptation of Protest: Trying to "Break Through" 7. Jewish Power: The Demise of a Myth Part 4: Crisis and Patriotism, 1936-1942 8. FDR: "The Greatest Friend We Have" 9. "On Being an American": (In Place of a) Conclusion
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