ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|22 pages

Who Shall Bear Guilt for the Holocaust

The Human Dilemma *

chapter 3|13 pages

The St. Louis Tragedy

chapter 6|45 pages

Boycott, Rescue, and Ransom

The Threefold Dilemma of American Jewry in 1938–1939

chapter 8|12 pages

American Editorial Response to the Rise of Adolf Hitler

A Preliminary Consideration

chapter 9|15 pages

The Prelude to Nazism

The German-American Press and the Jews 1919–1933

chapter 12|21 pages

Why Auschwitz Was Never Bombed

chapter 13|17 pages

A New Deal for Refugees

The Promise and Reality of Oswego

chapter 16|20 pages

American Jewry and the Holocaust

From Biltmore to the American Jewish Conference

chapter 18|22 pages

Rescue Priority and Fund Raising as Issues During the Holocaust

A Case Study of the Relations between the Vaad Ha-Hatzala and the Joint, 1939–1941

chapter 19|14 pages

The U.S. Army and the Jews

Policies Toward The Displaced Persons After World War II

chapter 20|23 pages

American Jewish Chaplains and the Shearit Hapletah

April–June 1945