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The Jews Should Keep Quiet - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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The Jews Should Keep Quiet - Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (Hardcover)
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Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet
reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt
administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael
Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the
administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far
below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused
to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed
proposals to use empty Liberty ships returning from Europe to carry
refugees, and rejected pleas to drop bombs on the railways leading
to Auschwitz, even while American planes were bombing targets only
a few miles away-actions that would not have conflicted with the
larger goal of winning the war. What motivated FDR? Medoff explores
the sensitive question of the president's private sentiments toward
Jews. Unmasking strong parallels between Roosevelt's statements
regarding Jews and Asians, he connects the administration's
policies of excluding Jewish refugees and interning Japanese
Americans. The Jews Should Keep Quiet further reveals how FDR's
personal relationship with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, American Jewry's
foremost leader in the 1930s and 1940s, swayed the U.S. response to
the Holocaust. Documenting how Roosevelt and others pressured Wise
to stifle American Jewish criticism of FDR's policies, Medoff
chronicles how and why the American Jewish community largely fell
in line with Wise. Ultimately Medoff weighs the administration's
realistic options for rescue action, which, if taken, would have
saved many lives.
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