American Jewry During The Holocaust
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American Jewry During The Holocaust
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Author : Seymour Maxwell Finger
language : en
Publisher: American Jewish Commission
Release Date : 1984
American Jewry During The Holocaust written by Seymour Maxwell Finger and has been published by American Jewish Commission this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
What major Jewish American organizations tried to do, and why they couldn't succeed.
America American Jews And The Holocaust
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Author : Jeffrey Gurock
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-16
America American Jews And The Holocaust written by Jeffrey Gurock and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with History categories.
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.
American Jewry And The Holocaust
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Author : Yehuda Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
American Jewry And The Holocaust written by Yehuda Bauer and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with Social Science categories.
In this volume Yehudi Bauer describes the efforts made to aid European victims of World War II by the New York-based American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, American Jewry's chief representative abroad. Drawing on the mass of unpublished material in the JDC archives and other repositories, as well as on his thorough knowledge of recent and continuing research into the Holocaust, he focuses alternately on the personalities and institutional decisions in New York and their effects on the JDC workers and their rescue efforts in Europe. He balances personal stories with a country-by-country account of the fate of Jews through ought the war years: the grim statistics of millions deported and killed are set in the context of the hopes and frustrations of the heroic individuals and small groups who actively worked to prevent the Nazis' Final Solution. This study is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand the American Jewish response to European events from 1939 to 1945. Bauer confronts the tremendous moral and historical questions arising from JDC's activities. How great was the danger? Who should be saved first? Was it justified to use illegal or extralegal means? What country would accept Jewish refugees? His analysis also raises an issue which perhaps can never be answered: could American Jews have done more if they had grasped the reality of the Holocaust?
Reconstructing The Old Country
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Author : Eliyana R. Adler
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-20
Reconstructing The Old Country written by Eliyana R. Adler and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with History categories.
The 1950s and early 1960s have not traditionally been viewed as a particularly creative era in American Jewish life. On the contrary, these years have been painted as a period of inactivity and Americanization. As if exhausted by the traumas of World War II, the American Jewish community took a rest until suddenly reawakened by the 1967 Six-Day War and its implications for world Jewry. Recent scholarship, however, has demonstrated that previous assumptions about the early silence of American Jewry with regard to the Holocaust were exaggerated. And while historians have expanded their borders and definitions to encompass the postwar decades, scholars from other disciplines have been paying increasing attention to the unique literary, photographic, artistic, dramatic, political, and other cultural creations of this period and the ways in which they hearken back to not only the Holocaust itself but also to images of prewar Eastern Europe. Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post-Holocaust Decades brings together scholars of literature, art, history, ethnography, and related fields to examine how the American Jewish community in the post-Holocaust era was shaped by its encounter with literary relics, living refugees, and other cultural productions which grew out of an encounter with Eastern European Jewish life from the pre-Holocaust era. In particular, editors Eliyana R. Adler and Sheila E. Jelen are interested in three different narratives and their occasional intersections. The first narrative is the real, hands-on interaction between American Jews and European Jewish refugees and how the two groups influenced one another. Second were the imaginative reconstructions of a wartime or prewar Jewish world to meet the needs of a postwar American Jewish audience. Third is the narrative in which the Holocaust was mobilized to justify postwar political and philanthropic activism. Reconstructing the Old Country will contribute to the growing scholarly conversation about the postwar years in a variety of fields. Scholars and students of American Jewish history and literature in particular will appreciate this internationally focused scholarship on the continuing reverberations of the Second World War and the Holocaust.
Out Of The Ashes
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Author : Yehuda Bauer
language : en
Publisher: Pergamon
Release Date : 1989
Out Of The Ashes written by Yehuda Bauer and has been published by Pergamon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
Out of the Ashes is a unique account of the contribution of American Jews to the continued survival of the remnant of European Jewry - the She'erit Hapletah - in the aftermath of the Nazi Holocaust. As the Second World War drew to a close and the full extent of the Holocaust was revealed, the immediate American Jewish reaction of shocked silence and disbelief was soon transformed into pragmatic action: Jewish agencies throughout the US were mobilized to help the survivors and their communities to begin to rebuild shattered lives. Paramount among these organizations was the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), which since its formation in 1914 had established itself as the foremost American Jewish agency for helping fellow Jews overseas. The JDC was joined by other organizations, including the well-established HIAS (Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society) and ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation and Training). Based on a variety of sources, including the JDC archives and oral interviews, the book examines the politics and mechanics of the American Jewish intervention and assesses its extent and effect on the fate of European Jewry both in Europe and elsewhere in the years immediately after 1945.
The Holocaust Averted
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Author : Jeffrey S. Gurock
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-03
The Holocaust Averted written by Jeffrey S. Gurock and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-03 with Fiction categories.
In The Holocaust Averted, Jeffrey Gurock imagines what might have happened to the Jewish community in the United States if the Holocaust had never occurred and forces readers to contemplate how the road to acceptance and empowerment for today’s American Jews could have been harder than it actually was.
Heroes Antiheroes And The Holocaust
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Author : David Morrison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Heroes Antiheroes And The Holocaust written by David Morrison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) categories.
As a US psychiatrist who made aliyah (i.e. moved) to Israel and as founding director of MILAH, a Jerusalem institute for Hebrew language and cultural enrichment, Morrison offers insights into the internal political and motivational forces limiting American Jewry anti-Nazi action in the 1930s and 1940s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Ambiguous Relations
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Author : Shlomo Shafir
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2018-02-05
Ambiguous Relations written by Shlomo Shafir and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-05 with Social Science categories.
The reemergence of a united Germany as a dominant power in Europe has increased even more it's importance as a major political ally and trade partner of the United States, despite the misgivings of some U.S. citizens. Ambiguous Relations addresses for the first time the complex relationships between American Jews and Germany over the fifty years following the end of World War II, and examines American Jewry's' ambiguous attitude toward Germany that continues despite sociological and generational changes within the community. Shlomo Shafir recounts attempts by American Jews to influence U.S. policy toward Germany after the ware and traces these efforts through President Reagan's infamous visit to Bitburg and beyond. He shows how Jewish demands for justice were hampered not only by America's changing attitude toward West Germany as a postwar European power but also by the distraction of anti-communist hysteria in this country. In evaluating the impact of Jewish pressure on American public opinion and on the West German government, Shafir discusses the rationales and strategies of Jewish communal and religious groups, legislators, and intellectuals, as well as the rise of Holocaust consciousness and the roles of Israel and surviving German Jewish communities. He also describes the efforts of German diplomats to assuage American Jewish hostility and relates how the American Jewish community has been able to influence German soul-searching regarding their historical responsibility and even successfully intervened to bring war criminals to trial. Based on extensive archival research in Germany, Israel, and the Unities States, Ambiguous Relations in the first book to examine this tenuous situation in such depth. It is a comprehensive account of recent history that comes to groups with emotional and political reality.
The Response Of Orthodox Jewry In The United States To The Holocaust
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Author : Efraim Zuroff
language : en
Publisher: New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Response Of Orthodox Jewry In The United States To The Holocaust written by Efraim Zuroff and has been published by New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
This committee, which later became known (by its Hebrew name) as the Vaad-ha-Hatzala Rescue Committee emerged as the official rescue and relief agency of American Orthodox Jewry during the Holocaust.".
We Remember With Reverence And Love
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Author : Hasia R. Diner
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2010-10-03
We Remember With Reverence And Love written by Hasia R. Diner and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-03 with History categories.
It has become an accepted truth: after World War II, American Jews chose to be silent about the mass murder of millions of their European brothers and sisters at the hands of the Nazis. In a compelling work sure to draw fire from academics and pundits alike, Hasia R. Diner shows this assumption of silence to be categorically false.