04641nam 2200853 a 450 991096396600332120240416155023.0978067407367806740736739780674073654067407365710.4159/harvard.9780674073654(CKB)2550000001039101(StDuBDS)AH25018204(SSID)ssj0000835343(PQKBManifestationID)11966473(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835343(PQKBWorkID)10990055(PQKB)10300096(DE-B1597)209815(OCoLC)1024011195(OCoLC)1029814735(OCoLC)1032677623(OCoLC)1037979668(OCoLC)1041814966(OCoLC)1042106931(OCoLC)979967840(DE-B1597)9780674073654(Au-PeEL)EBL3301244(CaPaEBR)ebr10669201(OCoLC)831676444(MiAaPQ)EBC3301244(Perlego)1147498(EXLCZ)99255000000103910120121005d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrFDR and the Jews /Richard Breitman, Allan J. Lichtman1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20131 online resource (vi, 433 pages )illustrationsFormerly CIP.Uk9780674416741 0674416740 9780674050266 0674050266 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Four Roosevelts -- The Rise and Fall of FDR -- FDR Returns -- The Democrat and the Dictator -- Immigration Wars -- Transitions -- Moving Millions? -- Resettlement in Latin America? -- Toward War -- Tightened Security -- Wartime America -- Debating Remedies -- Zionism and the Arab World -- The War Refugee Board -- Negotiations and Rescue in Hungary -- Endings -- Perspectives.Nearly 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.F.D.R. and the JewsJewsGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryJews, EuropeanGovernment policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)JewsPersecutionsEuropeHistory20th centuryUnited StatesForeign relationsGermanyGermanyForeign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relations1933-1945JewsGovernment policyHistoryJews, EuropeanGovernment policyHistoryHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)JewsHistory973.917092Breitman Richard1947-166969Lichtman Allan J1806515MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963966003321FDR and the Jews4355724UNINA