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America and the Holocaust
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"The first comprehensive volume to teach about America's response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of 100 important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues"-- Provided by publisher.
| כותר |
America and the Holocaust : a documentary history / Rafael Medoff. |
|---|---|
| מוציא לאור |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lincoln, Nebraska : The Jewish Publication Society : University of Nebraska Press |
| שנה |
[2022] |
| הערות |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Responses to Hitler's Rise -- America Hopes for a Restrained Hitler -- Document 1.1 "Just in Case He Goosesteps Too Much!" -- Dorothy Thompson Reports from Germany -- Document 1.2 "Starve, Humiliate, Degrade the Jew -- In Every Walk, Trade Profession, Nazi Pressure in Law and Slogan" -- The New York Times Interviews Hitler -- Document 1.3 "Hitler Seeks Jobs for All Germans" -- Boycotting German Goods -- Document 1.4 "No Trading with Germany" -- Hitler on Trial at Madison Square Garden -- Document 1.5 Hitler on Trial-Resolution and Verdict -- Further Reading -- 2. The American Mood -- Antisemitism in Congress -- Document 2.1 Representative John Rankin's Remarks before the House -- "Racial Science" Spreads -- Document 2.2 The Passing of the Great Race -- Father Coughlin and Hate Radio -- Document 2.3 Father Coughlin's Radio Address Concerning Kristallnacht -- Antisemitic Attitudes among the Public -- Document 2.4 Polls by Roper (1938) and Opinion Research (1940) on Antisemitic Attitudes -- Antisemitism in the State Department -- Document 2.5 Antisemitic Remarks by State Department Officials -- Further Reading -- 3. Doing Business with Hitler -- U.S. Participation in the Nazi Olympics -- Document 3.1 "To the Sport-Loving Public of the United States" -- Apologizing to Hitler -- Document 3.2 Secretary of State Apologizes to Hitler -- A Cabinet Member Participates in a Pro-Nazi Rally -- Document 3.3 "'Heil Hitler' Resounds as Steuben Society Denounces Boycott, Acclaims New Germany" -- Censoring Criticism of Hitler -- Document 3.4 FDR Objects to Secretary of the Interior's Criticism of Hitler -- FDR Urges "Quarantining" of Aggressor Nations -- Document 3.5 FDR's Quarantine Speech -- Further Reading -- 4. The Universities and the Nazis. Nazi Ambassador Speaks at Columbia -- Document 4.1 "Luther Calls Hitler Critics 'Old-Timers'" -- Nazi Official Visits Harvard -- Document 4.2 "Render unto Caesar" -- A Nazi University Celebrates -- Document 4.3 "Heidelberg" -- American Students in Nazi Germany -- Document 4.4 "Germany Discussed by One Who Spent Junior Year There" -- Abandoning Refugee Scholars -- Document 4.5 Hamilton College President's Letter Regarding Hiring Refugee Scholars -- Further Reading -- 5. U.S. Immigration Policy -- Immigration Statistics -- Document 5.1 "Annual Quotas and Quota Immigrants Admitted, Fiscal Years Ended June 30, 1925 to 1944, by Countries" -- When Anne Frank Tried to Come to America -- Document 5.2 Anne Frank's Father Asks American Industrialist to Help the Frank Family Immigrate -- "Postpone and Postpone and Postpone" -- Document 5.3 The Assistant Secretary of State on Ways to Obstruct Immigration -- The "Close Relatives" Rule -- Document 5.4 U.S. Immigration Regulation Regarding Applicants Leaving "Close Relatives" Behind -- Albert Einstein's Plea to the First Lady -- Document 5.5 Albert Einstein Asks the First Lady to Oppose New Immigration Restrictions -- Further Reading -- 6. Searching for a Haven -- James McDonald Resigns in Protest -- Document 6.1 Resignation of the High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany -- Eyewitness to Horror -- Document 6.2 "Jews Humiliated by Vienna Crowds" -- The Evian Conference -- Document 6.3 Refugee Problem Announcement in Preparation for the Evian Conference -- Suicide of a Jewish Refugee -- Document 6.4 "Ends Life to Escape Return to Germany" -- FDR Responds to Kristallnacht -- Document 6.5 President Roosevelt's Statement Concerning the Kristallnacht Pogrom -- Further Reading -- 7. The Doomed Journey of the St. Louis -- Offer of Haven in the Virgin Islands. Document 7.1 "Virgin Islands Too Offer Haven for Oppressed Jews" -- A Child Appeals to the First Lady -- Document 7.2 Eleven-Year-Old Beseeches the First Lady to Accept the Refugees -- St. Louis Passengers Appeal to the White House -- Document 7.3 St. Louis Captain's Log Record of Passengers' Telegram to the White House -- Secretaries of State and Treasury Discuss the St. Louis -- Document 7.4 Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury Confer on the St. Louis -- "The Saddest Ship Afloat" -- Document 7.5 "Refugee Ship" -- Further Reading -- 8. The Wagner-Rogers Bill to Save Children -- The Wagner-Rogers Bill -- Document 8.1 Text of the Wagner-Rogers Bill (H.R.J. Res. 165 and 168) -- "20,000 Ugly Adults" -- Document 8.2 Remark by FDR's Cousin against Wagner-Rogers -- President Roosevelt's Position -- Document 8.3 FDR's "File No Action" Note on Wagner-Rogers -- Helen Hayes Testifies for Admitting Children -- Document 8.4 "First Lady of the American Theater" Testifies for Admitting German Refugee Children -- Agnes Waters Testifies against Admitting Children -- Document 8.5 "Mother Witness" Testifies against Admitting German Refugee Children -- Further Reading -- 9. American Rescuers -- The State Department Rebuffs Varian Fry -- Document 9.1 "You Should Inform Dr. Bohn and Mr. Fry" -- The Krauses Rescue Fifty Children from Germany and Austria -- Document 9.2 Erika Tamar's Passport to America -- The Sharps' Rescue Mission in Czechoslovakia -- Document 9.3 Martha Sharp's Recollections about Rescue Work in Czechoslovakia -- Lois Gunden Shelters Children in Vichy France -- Document 9.4 Recollections of Hiding French Jewish Children from the Nazis -- Roddie Edmonds Shields Jewish GIs from the Nazis -- Document 9.5 Testimony Regarding Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds's Bravery -- Further Reading -- 10. Genocide Confirmed -- The Bund Report. Document 10.1 "Report of the Bund Regarding the Persecution of the Jews-May 1942" -- The Riegner Telegram -- Document 10.2 Gerhart Riegner's Telegram Revealing the Nazis' Annihilation Plan -- The Sternbuch Telegram -- Document 10.3 The Sternbuch Telegram Revealing Additional Details of the Mass Murder -- The Allies' Declaration -- Document 10.4 "German Policy of Extermination of the Jewish Race" -- Jan Karski Reports to President Roosevelt -- Document 10.5 A Polish Underground Courier's 1943 Conversation with President Roosevelt -- Further Reading -- 11. All the News the Media Could Fit -- The New York Times on Babi Yar -- Document 11.1 Two Reporters' Contrasting Accounts of the Babi Yar Massacre -- The Media and the Allies' Declaration -- Document 11.2 U.S. News Media's Coverage of the Allies' Declaration on the Mass Murder -- The Media and the Deportations from Hungary -- Document 11.3 "Jews in Hungary Fear Annihilation" -- The Nation Urges Rescue -- Document 11.4 "While the Jews Die" -- I. F. Stone Investigates -- Document 11.5 "Justice Department Immigration Figures Knock Long Story into Cocked Hat" -- Further Reading -- 12. American Christian Responses -- Rabbi Wise Pleads with Christian Clergy -- Document 12.1 Meeting of Rabbi Wise and Christian Clergy, 1933 -- The U.S. Catholic Press on Kristallnacht -- Document 12.2 "Nazi Atrocities and the American War Fever: Are We Preparing for War with Germany?" -- Christian Century Doubts the Holocaust -- Document 12.3 "Horror Stories from Poland," "From Rabbi Wise," "From the Editors" -- Jewish and Christian Students Speak Out -- Document 12.4 "On Implementing Brotherhood" -- A Baptist Farmer's Gesture -- Document 12.5 "Farmer Rogers, His Brother's Keeper" -- Further Reading -- 13. American Jewish Responses -- The President and the Rabbi. Document 13.1 Rabbi Wise's Student Questions His Relationship with FDR -- Jewish Leaders Appeal to the President -- Document 13.2 "Report on the Visit to the President" -- Jewish Congressmen Meet with the President -- Document 13.3 "Minutes of Dinner Meeting on Wednesday Evening March 22nd at the Statler Hotel" -- "If They Were Slaughtering Horses" -- Document 13.4 "Confidential Memorandum of Rabbi Meyer Berlin" -- Jewish Leaders Discuss Strategy -- Document 13.5 Meeting of Jewish Leaders Concerning Rescue Advocacy -- Further Reading -- 14. The Bermuda Conference -- A Jewish Proposal for Bermuda -- Document 14.1 "The Following Proposals Are Respectfully Submitted" -- Announcement at the End of the Conference -- Document 14.2 "Report of the Bermuda Meeting on the Refugee Problem" -- Congressman Emanuel Celler's Response -- Document 14.3 Response to Bermuda -- A Jewish Leader's Response -- Document 14.4 "The Mockery at Bermuda" -- "An Appeal to the Conscience of the World" -- Document 14.5 "I am taking the liberty of addressing to you, Sirs, these my last words" -- Further Reading -- 15. Obstacles to Rescue -- Congressional Sympathy -- Document 15.1 Text of the Barkley Resolution (Senate Concurrent Resolution 9) -- A Cartoonist Challenges the State Department -- Document 15.2 "Refer to Committee 3, Investigation Subcommittee 6, Section 8b, for Consideration" -- FDR on "Rescue through Victory" -- Document 15.3 "Speech of the Honorable A. A. Berle Jr." -- The Allies' Declaration in Moscow -- Document 15.4 "Declaration of the Four Nations on General Security" -- Empty Ships for Refugees -- Document 15.5 "Shipping for Refugees" -- Further Reading -- 16. The Campaign for Rescue -- The Bergson Group's "Race against Death" -- Document 16.1 "This Is a Race against Death" -- The Rabbis' Petition to FDR -- Document 16.2 "In the Name of God, Creator of the Universe". |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (348 pages) |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| שנת זכויות יוצרים |
©2022 |
| מספר מערכת |
997012410597505171 |
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