FDR and the Jews / Richard Breitman.
Breitman, Richard , author.
2013
E807
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Title FDR and the Jews / Richard Breitman.
Author Breitman, Richard , author.
ISBN 9780674073654
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674073654
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 27 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674073654 doi
Call Number E807
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.917092
Summary Nearly seventy-five years after World War II, a contentious debate lingers over whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt turned his back on the Jews of Hitler's Europe. Defenders claim that FDR saved millions of potential victims by defeating Nazi Germany. Others revile him as morally indifferent and indict him for keeping America's gates closed to Jewish refugees and failing to bomb Auschwitz's gas chambers. In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician-compassionate but also pragmatic-struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions. For most of his presidency Roosevelt indeed did little to aid the imperiled Jews of Europe. He put domestic policy priorities ahead of helping Jews and deferred to others' fears of an anti-Semitic backlash. Yet he also acted decisively at times to rescue Jews, often withstanding contrary pressures from his advisers and the American public. Even Jewish citizens who petitioned the president could not agree on how best to aid their co-religionists abroad. Though his actions may seem inadequate in retrospect, the authors bring to light a concerned leader whose efforts on behalf of Jews were far greater than those of any other world figure. His moral position was tempered by the political realities of depression and war, a conflict all too familiar to American politicians in the twenty-first century.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1 The Rise and Fall of FDR
2 FDR Returns
3 The Democrat and the Dictator
4 Immigration Wars
5 Transitions
6 Moving Millions?
7 Resettlement in Latin America?
8 Toward War
9 Tightened Security
10 Wartime America
11 Debating Remedies
12 Zionism and the Arab World
13 The War Refugee Board
14 Negotiations and Rescue in Hungary
15 Endings
16 Perspectives
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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