Rafael Medoff

Jews Should Keep Quiet (eBook, PDF)

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Jewish Publication Society
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780827618329
• Artikelnr.: 72347061

Autorenporträt

Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and coeditor of the institute’s online Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust. He has taught history at Ohio State University, the State University of New York at Purchase, and elsewhere, and has written nineteen books about American Jewish history, the Holocaust, and related topics, including Too Little, and Almost Too Late: The War Refugee Board and America’s Response to the Holocaust.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
Introduction: “If Only He Would Do Something for My People!”    
1. “Nothing but Indifference”    
2. In Search of Havens    
3. Silence and Its Consequences    
4. Suppressing the Dissidents    
5. The Politics of Rescue    
6. FDR, Wise, and Palestine    
7. The Failure to Bomb Auschwitz    
8. Antisemitism in the White House    
Conclusion: A President’s Strategy and a Rabbi’s Anguish    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index