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Britain and the Holocaust : the failure of Anglo-Jewish leadership? /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sompolinsky, Meier
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Brighton ; Portland, Or. : Sussex Academic Press, 1999.
Subjects:
Jews > Great Britain > Politics and government.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, British.
Great Britain > Ethnic relations.
Table of Contents:
  • London learns of the final solution
  • The changing balance of power in British Jewry
  • The British blockade of European Jewry
  • Years of vacillation: the Jewish leadership, 1939-1942
  • Attempts to break the blockade and the meager results
  • The Declaration of December 17, 1942
  • Before and after the Bermuda Conference
  • The Bermuda policy and its opponents
  • Aid and rescue efforts to comfort the seablocked
  • The search for refugee havens
  • The rescue efforts of the Chief Rabbi's Religious Emergency Council
  • The ten million dollar illusion
  • Ireland and the Jews of Europe
  • Reactions to the crisis of Hungarian Jewry
  • Last-minute rescue attempts.