| Description |
ix, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Incoming -- 1. Amerika du hast es besser: German Jewish Immigrants in America -- 2. A Community Transformed: The Influx from the East -- Pt. 2. A Growing Divide - "We" and "They" -- 3. Hard Times in the Goldene Medine: The Jewish Question in the American Context -- 4. A Crisis of Faith: Anti-Semitism in Weimar Germany -- Pt. 3. A Fragile Political Voice, 1933-1935 -- 5. Jewish Leaders versus the Voice of America, 1933 -- 6. Co-optation of Protest: Trying to Break Through, 1933 -- 7. The Demise of the Myth of Jewish Power -- Pt. 4. Crisis an Patriotism, 1936-1942 -- 8. FDR: The greatest fried we have -- 9. On Being an American: (In Place of a) Conclusion |
| Summary |
"What did American Jews do to help the threatened Jewish communities of Europe as the Nazi grip tightened in the 1930s? Why didn't they do more to help Jews leave Europe and bring them to America? Probing these questions, Gulie Ne'eman Arad finds that, more than the events themselves, what was instrumental in dictating and shaping the American Jews' response to Nazism was the dilemma posed by their desire for acceptance by American society, on the one hand, and their commitment to community solidarity, on the other. When American Jews were faced with the desperate plight of European Jews after Hitler's accession to power, they were hesitant to press the case for immigration for fear of raising doubts about their patriotism |
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In this gripping and thoroughly researched account, Arad places the American Jewish encounter with Nazism within the overall history of the American Jewish experience from the mid-nineteenth century and offers a persuasive explanation of the ambivalent political response of American Jewish leaders in dealing with the Roosevelt administration."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-300) and index |
| Subject |
Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Jews -- United States -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
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Jews -- Attitudes.
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Public opinion -- United States.
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| LC no. |
00038910 |
| ISBN |
0253338093 alkaline paper |
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