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Author : Rafael Medoff
Release : 2013-03-01
Genre : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Book Synopsis FDR and the Holocaust by : Rafael Medoff
Download or read book FDR and the Holocaust written by Rafael Medoff. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rafael Medoff
Release : 2019-01-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis The Jews Should Keep Quiet by : Rafael Medoff
Download or read book The Jews Should Keep Quiet written by Rafael Medoff. This book was released on 2019-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed proposals to use empty Liberty ships returning from Europe to carry refugees, and rejected pleas to drop bombs on the railways leading to Auschwitz, even while American planes were bombing targets only a few miles away--actions that would not have conflicted with the larger goal of winning the war. What motivated FDR? Medoff explores the sensitive question of the president's private sentiments toward Jews. Unmasking strong parallels between Roosevelt's statements regarding Jews and Asians, he connects the administration's policies of excluding Jewish refugees and interning Japanese Americans. The Jews Should Keep Quiet further reveals how FDR's personal relationship with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, American Jewry's foremost leader in the 1930s and 1940s, swayed the U.S. response to the Holocaust. Documenting how Roosevelt and others pressured Wise to stifle American Jewish criticism of FDR's policies, Medoff chronicles how and why the American Jewish community largely fell in line with Wise. Ultimately Medoff weighs the administration's realistic options for rescue action, which, if taken, would have saved many lives.
Author : Robert N. Rosen
Release : 2006
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Saving the Jews by : Robert N. Rosen
Download or read book Saving the Jews written by Robert N. Rosen. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorously researched narrative of the record of the Roosevelt Administration.
Author : Robert Shogan
Release : 2010
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Prelude to Catastrophe by : Robert Shogan
Download or read book Prelude to Catastrophe written by Robert Shogan. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the relationship Franklin D. Roosevelt had with a variety of influential Jews and examines their actions and inactions regarding the Jewish Holocaust in Euorpe during World War II.
Author : Richard Breitman
Release : 2013-03-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis FDR and the Jews by : Richard Breitman
Download or read book FDR and the Jews written by Richard Breitman. This book was released on 2013-03-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America's gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz's gas chambers. In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician-compassionate but also pragmatic-struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions. For most of his presidency Roosevelt indeed did little to aid the imperiled Jews of Europe. He put domestic policy priorities ahead of helping Jews and deferred to others' fears of an anti-Semitic backlash. Yet he also acted decisively at times to rescue Jews, often withstanding contrary pressures from his advisers and the American public. Even Jewish citizens who petitioned the president could not agree on how best to aid their co-religionists abroad. Though his actions may seem inadequate in retrospect, the authors bring to light a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure. His moral position was tempered by the political realities of depression and war, a conflict all too familiar to American politicians in the twenty-first century.
