Bearing witness : how America and its Jews responded to the Holocaust / Henry L. Feingold
| Author(s): | Feingold, Henry L., 1931- |
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| Subjects: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Public opinion Public opinion--United States Jews--United States--Politics and government Jews--Attitudes United States--Foreign relations--1933-1945 United States--Ethnic relations |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Published: | Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1995 |
| LC Classification: | D |
| Table of Contents: | Introduction 1 Pt. 1. Holocaust: The Historical Problem 1. The Uniqueness of the Holocaust 19 2. Like Sheep to the Slaughter: The Judenrat 41 3. The Resistance Question 54 4. Allied Foreign Policy and the Holocaust 59 Pt. 2. America and the Holocaust 5. Roosevelt's New Deal Humanitarianism 73 6. Could Mass Resettlement Have Saved European Jewry? 94 7. The American Effort to Save the Jews of Hungary 141 8. Governmental Response to Human Crisis 169 9. Publish's Roosevelt: Deceit and Indifference or Politics and Powerlessness? 183 Pt. 3. American Jewry and the Holocaust 10. Was There Communal Failure Among American Jews? 205 11. Jewish Leadership During the Roosevelt Years 225 12. Rescue and the Secular Perception 243 13. Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust? 255 Notes 279 Selected Bibliography 301 Index 305 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 95015862 //r96 ISBN: 081562669X (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0815626703 (pbk. : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-303) and index |
| Physical Description: | viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 32347022 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 081562669X 0815626703 |