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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feingold, Henry L., 1931- Bearing witness. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1995 (OCoLC)604211749 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry L Feingold |
| ISBN: | 081562669X 9780815626695 0815626703 9780815626701 |
| OCLC Number: | 32347022 |
| Description: | viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1: Holocaust : the historical problem. The uniqueness of the Holocaust ; Like sheep to the slaughter : the Judenrat ; The resistance question ; Allied foreign policy and the Holocaust ; Pt. 2: America and the Holocaust. Roosevelt's New Deal humanitarianism ; Could mass resettlement have saved European Jewry? ; The American effort to save the Jews of Hungary ; Governmental response to human crisis ; PBS's Roosevelt : deceit and indifference or politics and powerlessness? ; Pt. 3: American Jewry and the Holocaust. Was there communal failure among American Jews? ; Jewish leadership during the Roosevelt years ; Rescue and the secular perception ; Who shall bear guilt for the Holocaust? |
| Responsibility: | Henry L. Feingold. |
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Abstract:
Historian Henry L. Feingold probes the haunting question of why the efforts of the American government and Jewish leaders were ineffective in halting or mitigating Germany's genocidal policy during the Holocaust. Focusing on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American Jewish leadership, Feingold anchors the American reaction to the Holocaust, in the tension-ridden domestic environment of the Depression, to the international scene. In these essays, he argues that the constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 40s and the extraordinary events of the time virtually made it impossible for the administration and American Jews to react differently.--From publisher description.
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
- Public opinion -- United States.
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945.
- Jews -- United States -- Politics and government.
- Jews -- United States -- Attitudes.
- United States -- Ethnic relations.
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- Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Opinion publique américaine.
- Juifs américains -- Politique et gouvernement.
- Juifs -- États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement.
- Judenvernichtung.
- Verarbeitung.
- USA.
- Juden.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Historiography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion
- Jews -- Attitudes -- United States
- Jews -- Politics and government -- United States
- Public opinion -- United States
- United States -- Ethnic relations
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945
