America, American Jews, and the Holocaust: American Jewish History / Edition 1

by Jeffrey Gurock

Overview

This volume incorporates studies of the persecution of the Jews in Germany, the respective responses of the German-American Press and the American-Jewish Press during the emergence of Nazism, and the subsequent issues of rescue during the holocaust and policies towards the displaced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415919319
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/05/1997
Series:	American Jewish History , #7
Pages:	512
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust; 2: The State Department, the Labor Department, and German Jewish Immigration, 1930–1940; 3: The St. Louis Tragedy; 4: The United States and the Persecution of the Jews in Germany, 1933–1939; 5: American Jewish Leaders and the Emerging Nazi Threat (1928–January, 1933) *; 6: Boycott, Rescue, and Ransom; 7: American Jewry, the Refugees and Immigration Restriction (1932–1942) *; 8: American Editorial Response to the Rise of Adolf Hitler; 9: The Prelude to Nazism; 10: Pro-Nazi Sentiment in the United States March, 1933-March, 1934 *; 11: American Interfaith Cooperation on Behalf of Refugees from Nazism, 1933–1945; 12: Why Auschwitz Was Never Bombed; 13: A New Deal for Refugees; 14: Carlton J. H. Hayes, Spain, and the Refugee Crisis, 1942–1945 *; 15: What Did They Know? The American Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 1 September 1939 –