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The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. Although the
modern Zionist movement was organized only a little more than a
century ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back almost 4,000
years, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home
in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in the promised land - the place
where the Jewish state subsequently arose. For many decades,
Zionism was not supported by the majority of Jews for whom the
state was intended. It was only as a result of some of the most
tragic events in human history that it became widely accepted,
within the Jewish community, and further afield, and that it
achieved its goals. Historical Dictionary of Zionism is an
excellent source of information on Zionism, its founders and
leaders, its various strands and organizations, major events in its
struggle, and its present status. By showing the movement's
strengths and weaknesses, it also acts as a corrective to overly
idealistic comments by its supporters and the wilder claims of its
opponents. A much more realistic understanding is offered in the
Introduction, which presents and explains the movement; the
Chronology, which shows its historic progression; the
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.
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 one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify
key episodes and issues. Each chapter pivots on five key documents:
two in image form and three in text form. Individual introductions
that contextualize the documents are followed by explanatory text,
analysis of historical implications, and suggestions for further
reading. A concluding state-of-the-field essay documents how
scholars have arrived at the presented information. A complementary
teacher's guide with questions for discussion is available online.
The twenty chapters address a broad range of subjects and events,
among them America's response to Hitler's rise, U.S. public opinion
about Jews, immigration policy, the Wagner-Rogers bill to save
children, American rescuers, news coverage of atrocities, American
Jewish and Christian responses to the Holocaust, the campaign for
U.S. rescue action, the question of bombing Auschwitz, and
liberation. Viewing real documents as a means to understanding core
issues will deepen reader involvement with this material. High
school and college students as well as general readers of all
levels of knowledge will be engaged in understanding this crucial
chapter in American history and weighing questions regarding mass
atrocities in our own era.
Although Herbert Hoover is not remembered as having had much
interaction with Jews or interest in issue of Jewish concern, he in
fact played a significant role in aiding Jewish communities
devastated by World War One and pogroms; supported the cause of a
Jewish state despite pressure from his own State Department;
actively promoted the rescue of Jews from the Holocaust; and played
a key part in the emergence of the "Jewish vote" in American
politics and bipartisan support for Israel. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Dr.
Sonja Schoepf Wentling is associate professor of history at
Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. A Herbert Hoover
Presidential Fellow, Class of 1997-1998, she has written about U.S.
foreign policy, Zionism, and East European Jewish history for
numerousscholarly journals, includingthe Journal of World History,
the Journal of American Ethnic History, American Jewish History,
and American Jewish Archives. Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding
director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies. A
Herbert Hoover Presidential Fellow, Class of 1988-1989, he is
author or editor of fourteen books on American Jewish history,
Zionism, and the Holocaust, including 'Jewish Americans and
Political Participation, ' which was named an "Outstanding Academic
Title of 2003" by the American Library Association's Choice
Magazine.
The Roosevelt administration tried to deport them. The FBI spied on
them. The British wanted to arrest them. But none of that could
stop the Bergson Group from forging ahead with its campaign for
rescue of Jews from the Holocaust in 1943-1944. Their rallies,
lobbying in Washington, and hundreds of newspaper advertisements
shook the American public and forced the Allies to face the Nazi
genocide. In these pages, the late Samuel Merlin, one of the
group's leaders, tells the remarkable story of a handful of
activists --Jews and Christians-- who helped change history.
Merlin's account is edited and annotated by noted Holocaust
historian Rafael Medoff.
For more than three decades, Ed Koch has been one of America's most
interesting and outspoken political figures. In this provocative
new book, Koch with Rafael Medoff guides readers through the major
battles in his life-long fight against anti-Semitism. Interviews,
speeches, new essays, never-before published personal
correspondence, and more highlight his leadership--on campuses, in
the media, on the streets of New York City, and in the halls of
power in Washington, DC. The book also features personal letters
from Henry Louis Gates, former President George Bush, and other
prominent figures. Koch will reveal startling information for the
first time here, and his writings are controversial, piercing,
teasing, and questioning. This book will ignite discussion for
years to come
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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This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged
from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics
and finally appeared center stage. Jewish Americans and Political
Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from
hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of political power.
The book provides an overview of American Jewish life, including
the impact of immigration, domestic antisemitism, the Holocaust,
and U.S-Israel relations. A chapter is devoted to protest politics,
covering such events as President Grant's Order #11 (expulsion
edict), tenants and shirtwaist-makers strikes, the 1943 rabbis
march on Washington, and Jewish responses to the Rosenberg case.
The book also covers participation in social movements such as
abolition, Jewish defense organizations, and the New Left. A
chapter is devoted to Jewish participation in electoral politics,
from Jewish interest in early socialism to Jewish advisers and the
emergence of Jewish conservatism. There are also biographies of
Jewish American officials and political officeholders. Provides an
overview of Jewish Americans in office, including Leopold Morse,
the first Jew elected to Congress, in 1876; a review of Jewish
members of Congress in the postwar era; and the role of Jewish
American women in Congress Contains excerpts from key legislation
impacting Jewish political participation, including Ulysses S.
Grant's 1862 directive to expel all Jews from the
Kentucky-Tennessee-Mississippi region and the 1974 Jackson
Amendment, which pressured the Soviet Union to permit the
emigration of its Jewish citizens
The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. While the
modern Zionist movement was organized a little more than a century
ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back close to 4,000 years
ago, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home
in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in the Promised Land, where the
Jewish state subsequently arose. From that day to the establishing
of the state of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have been in a
constant struggle to either regain or maintain their homeland.
Although 60 years have now passed since the establishment of
Israel, many of the political and religious factions that made up
the Zionist movement in the pre-state era remain active. The A to Z
of Zionism through its chronology, maps, introductory essay,
bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on
crucial persons, organizations, and events is a valuable
contribution to the appreciation for both the diversity and
consensus that characterize the Zionist experience.
How have American Zionists maintained the delicate balance between
their "Americanism" and their Zionism? How did they, as Americans,
support the principle of democracy and at the same time, as Jews,
support the creation of a Jewish homeland despite the pre-1948 Arab
majority in Palestine? Looking at America-Holy Land relations
during the years prior to the establishment of the state of Israel,
Medoff explores this crucial question of American Jewish identity.
Using original, previously unpublished archival material, this
study presents an engaging account of a dilemma that is still very
much an issue in today's political climate.
Well, let's face it. There's no question in my mind that some of
the people over there [U.S. State Department]--whose names are in
my book--were actually just plain anti-Semitic. It's just that
simple. There's no question according to the transcript of Josiah
E. DuBois, Jr., during a tape-recorded interview conducted for the
Harry S. Truman Library, 1973. Blowing the Whistle on Genocide
tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young treasury
department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the
Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many countries refused to
allow Jewish immigration. The United States, spurred on by the
America First Committee, wanted to remain neutral during the early
days of World War II. Anti-Semitic influences kept the United
States from filling its quotas for refugees, supposedly to keep
Nazi spies out of the country. DuBois exposed the inequities in
America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to
take action to rescue the displaced Jews. Josiah E. DuBois, Jr.,
was a different kind of hero of the Holocaust. He was not a
rescuer, and he did not shelter refugees. He was a whistle-blower
and opened the eyes of the global community to Nazi atrocities.
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism
fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of
American Judaism. This book recounts the fascinating and
little-known story of the militant American Zionists who lobbied
Congress, rallied American public opinion, and influenced
British-American relations in their campaign for Jewish statehood
in the 1930s and 1940s. Although these activists have been
dismissed as fanatics who fragmented the American Zionist movement,
Rafael Medoff reveals that the faction--which included an Academy
Award-winning screenwriter and several future members of the
Israeli parliament--was more influential than has been previously
acknowledged. These militants stirred America's conscience by
placing controversial newspaper ads, lobbying conservative as well
as liberal members of Congress, and staging dramatic protest
rallies. Through these tactics, Medoff shows, they attracted a wave
of support from an extraordinary cross-section of leading
Americans, including comedians Harpo Marx and Carl Reiner, actors
Vincent Price, Marlon Brando, and Jane Wyatt, musician Leonard
Bernstein, and rising young politicians Jacob Javits and Hubert
Humphrey. Medoff also describes the shadowy underground division
that smuggled weapons to the Holy Land in caskets, naming and
interviewing for the first time members of this gunrunning network.
Based on years of archival research and interviews and written in a
compelling style, Militant Zionism in America documents events that
reshaped the American Jewish community, influenced American foreign
policy, and contributed to one of the most extraordinary events of
modern history: the creation of the State of Israel. Rafael Medoff
is a Visiting Scholar at the State University of New York --
Purchase College.
The stories of over 650 fascinating individuals of Jewish heritage
are told in this unique four-volume set. Coverage includes famous
entertainers and sports figures, as well as leaders in the fields
of business, science, and politics. Every essay was written
exclusively for this set, and all essays adhere to the
comprehensive, easy-to-use format that is standard for all the
Great Lives titles. Plus, complimentary online access is provided
through Salem History.
The stories of over 650 fascinating individuals of Jewish heritage
are told in this unique four-volume set. Coverage includes famous
entertainers and sports figures, as well as leaders in the fields
of business, science, and politics. Every essay was written
exclusively for this set, and all essays adhere to the
comprehensive, easy-to-use format that is standard for all the
Great Lives titles. Plus, complimentary online access is provided
through Salem History.
The stories of over 650 fascinating individuals of Jewish heritage
are told in this unique four-volume set. Coverage includes famous
entertainers and sports figures, as well as leaders in the fields
of business, science, and politics. Every essay was written
exclusively for this set, and all essays adhere to the
comprehensive, easy-to-use format that is standard for all the
Great Lives titles. Plus, complimentary online access is provided
through Salem History.
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