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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674073654
035 _a(DE-B1597)209815
035 _a(OCoLC)1024011195
035 _a(OCoLC)1029814735
035 _a(OCoLC)1032677623
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082 0 4 _a973.917092
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBreitman, Richard
_eautore
245 1 0 _aFDR and the Jews /
_cRichard Breitman.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource :
_b27 halftones
336 _atext
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 The Rise and Fall of FDR --
_t2 FDR Returns --
_t3 The Democrat and the Dictator --
_t4 Immigration Wars --
_t5 Transitions --
_t6 Moving Millions? --
_t7 Resettlement in Latin America? --
_t8 Toward War --
_t9 Tightened Security --
_t10 Wartime America --
_t11 Debating Remedies --
_t12 Zionism and the Arab World --
_t13 The War Refugee Board --
_t14 Negotiations and Rescue in Hungary --
_t15 Endings --
_t16 Perspectives --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aNearly 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
650 0 _aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
650 0 _aJews
_xGovernment policy
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aJews
_zPersecutions
_zEurope
_xHistory
_y20th century
_xPersecutions.
650 0 _aJews
_zPersecutions
_zEurope
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aJews, European
_xGovernment policy
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 4 _aHISTORY / Holocaust.
650 4 _aHISTORY / Jewish.
650 4 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
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