The Jews Should Keep Quiet : Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust

Rafael Medoff

ISBN 10: 0827615191 / ISBN 13: 9780827615199

Editore: Jewish Publication Society Apr 2021, 2021

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titolo: The Jews Should Keep Quiet : Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust
• Editore: Jewish Publication Society Apr 2021
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0827615191
• ISBN 13: 9780827615199
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 223 L x 152 A x 27 P (millimetri) 223 millimetri di larghezza per 152 millimetri di altezza per 27 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 636 grammi

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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. 

 

Informazioni sull'autore

Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and coeditor of the institute’s online Encyclopedia of America’s Response to the Holocaust. He has taught history at Ohio State University and the State University of New York at Purchase, and written more than twenty books about American Jewish history, the Holocaust, and related topics.