Nazis in Newark

Nazis in Newark

by Warren Grover
Nazis in Newark

Nazis in Newark

by Warren Grover

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""Well researched, readable, and very interesting"" --Choice ""Nazis in Newark is a model local history that reaches well beyond the border of Essex County, New Jersey, to the national and international arenas. By recounting so many sides of the complicated encounter between Nazis and Jews in Newark, Warren Grover has fashioned a world of street politics, boycotts, Nazi louts and Jewish bruisers that is as compelling and telling in its detail as any grand tome on the supposed failures and successes of American Jewish resistence to the Holocaust... I recommend Nazis in Newark. I intend to use it as a cornerstone of my teaching for some time to come."" --Professor Michael Alexander The Jewish Quarterly Review ""Very few people today realize that the U.S. mainland was the scene of battles against the Nazis. Warren Grover has produced an outstanding work on this subject. The writing is incisive, the ideas are both original and insightful and the thesis masterfully developed and executed. Must reading for anyone interested in American history and ethnic studies."" --William B. Helmreich, CUNY Graduate Center and author of The Enduring Community ""Thanks to tenacious research and deft story-telling, Warren Grover has put the politics of extremism in one city in the shadow of Fascism, Nazism and Communism, and has thus illuminated the terrible dilemmas of the 1930s. His book also compels the reader to consider an historical anomaly: champions of the Third Reich come across as victims whose civil liberties were infringed, and the gangs of Newark responsible for these violations tended to be Jewish. Such ironies make Nazis in Newark worth the interest of anyone intrigued by ethnic conflict and politcal violence in urban America."" --Stephen Whitfield, Max Richter Professor of American Civilization, Brandeis University ""In this fast-paced, thorough study of anti-Nazism in Newark, scholar Warren Grover tells th

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351503310
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/29/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 292
File size: 3 MB

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Warren Grover

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Responses to Nazism; The New Minutemen; The Friends: Supporters and Enemies; 4: Dr. S. William Kalb and the Anti-Nazi Boycott; 5: The Failure of Liberalism; The Rise of the German-American Bund, 1936-1937; 1938 and Kristallnacht; 8: The Nazi-Soviet Pact and World War II, 1939-1940; 9: 1941, America Enters the War
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