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The Jews should keep quiet : Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Medoff, Rafael, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Philadelphia : University of Nebraska Press ; Jewish Publication Society, [2019]
Series:Jewish Publication Society series.
Subjects:
Roosevelt, Franklin D. > (Franklin Delano), > 1882-1945 > Relations with Jews.
Wise, Stephen S. > (Stephen Samuel), > 1874-1949.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Foreign public opinion, American.
Public opinion > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Jews > Rescue.
Jews > United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945.
United States > Foreign relations > 1933-1945.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: If only he would do something for my people
  • Nothing but indifference
  • In search of havens
  • Silence and its consequences
  • Suppressing the dissidents
  • The politics of rescue
  • FDR, Wise, and Palestine
  • The failure to bomb Auschwitz
  • Antisemitism in the White House
  • Conclusion: a President's strategy and a rabbi's anguish
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.