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American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years
of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In
Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews
Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous
ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of
Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the
Final Solution and how Nazi annihilationist intentions were clearly
discernible even during the earliest years of Hitler's rule.
Further, Norwood looks at the nature and impact of American and
British Jewish resistance to Nazi persecution and the efforts of
Jews at the grassroots level to press Jewish organizations to
respond more forcefully to the Nazi menace. He examines the
worldwide protest and boycott movements against Germany and German
goods as well as mass demonstrations by working-class and
lower-middle-class Jews in many American and British cities.
Prologue to Annihilation details how the events of 1930-1936 tested
American and British societies' willingness to accept Nazism and
its anti-Jewish philosophy and illuminates the divisions that
existed even within the Jewish community about how best to
challenge Nazi antisemitic policies and atrocities.
American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years
of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In
Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews
Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous
ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of
Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the
Final Solution and how Nazi annihilationist intentions were clearly
discernible even during the earliest years of Hitler's rule.
Further, Norwood looks at the nature and impact of American and
British Jewish resistance to Nazi persecution and the efforts of
Jews at the grassroots level to press Jewish organizations to
respond more forcefully to the Nazi menace. He examines the
worldwide protest and boycott movements against Germany and German
goods as well as mass demonstrations by working-class and
lower-middle-class Jews in many American and British cities.
Prologue to Annihilation details how the events of 1930-1936 tested
American and British societies' willingness to accept Nazism and
its anti-Jewish philosophy and illuminates the divisions that
existed even within the Jewish community about how best to
challenge Nazi antisemitic policies and atrocities.
This is the first systematic study of strikebreaking, intimidation,
and anti-unionism in the United States, subjects essential to a
full understanding of labor's fortunes in the twentieth century.
Paradoxically, the country that pioneered the expansion of civil
liberties allowed corporations to assemble private armies to
disrupt union organizing, spy on workers, and break strikes. Using
a social-historical approach, Stephen Norwood focuses on the
mercenaries the corporations enlisted in their anti-union efforts -
particularly college students, African American men, the
unemployed, and men associated with organized crime. Norwood also
considers the paramilitary methods unions developed to counter
mercenary violence. The book covers a wide range of industries
across much of the country. Norwood explores how the early
twentieth-century crisis of masculinity shaped strikebreaking's
appeal to elite youth and the media's romanticization of the
strikebreaker as a new soldier of fortune. He examines how mining
communities' perception of mercenaries as agents of a ribald,
sexually unrestrained, new urban culture intensified labor
conflict. The book traces the ways in which economic restructuring,
as well as shifting attitudes toward masculinity and anger,
transformed corporate anti-unionism from World War II to the
present.
Stephen H. Norwood has written the first systematic study of the
American far left's role in both propagating and combating
antisemitism. This book covers Communists from 1920 onward,
Trotskyists, the New Left and its black nationalist allies, and the
contemporary remnants of the New Left. Professor Norwood analyzes
the deficiencies of the American far left's explanations of Nazism
and the Holocaust. He explores far left approaches to militant
Islam, from condemnation of its fierce antisemitism in the 1930s to
recent apologies for jihad. Norwood discusses the far left's use of
long-standing theological and economic antisemitic stereotypes that
the far right also embraced. The study analyzes the far left's
antipathy to Jewish culture, as well as its occasional efforts to
promote it. He considers how early Marxist and Bolshevik paradigms
continued to shape American far left views of Jewish identity,
Zionism, Israel, and antisemitism.
This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent
of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the
1930s. Universities were highly influential in shaping public
opinion and many of the nation s most prominent university
administrators refused to take a principled stand against the
Hitler regime. Universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and
participated enthusiastically in student exchange programs with
Nazified universities in Germany. American educators helped Nazi
Germany improve its image in the West as it intensified its
persecution of the Jews and strengthened its armed forces. The
study contrasts the significant American grass-roots protest
against Nazism that emerged as soon as Hitler assumed power with
campus quiescence, and administrators frequently harsh treatment of
those students and professors who challenged their determination to
maintain friendly relations with Nazi Germany.
This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent
of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the
1930s. Universities were highly influential in shaping public
opinion and many of the nation s most prominent university
administrators refused to take a principled stand against the
Hitler regime. Universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and
participated enthusiastically in student exchange programs with
Nazified universities in Germany. American educators helped Nazi
Germany improve its image in the West as it intensified its
persecution of the Jews and strengthened its armed forces. The
study contrasts the significant American grass-roots protest
against Nazism that emerged as soon as Hitler assumed power with
campus quiescence, and administrators frequently harsh treatment of
those students and professors who challenged their determination to
maintain friendly relations with Nazi Germany.
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