LEADER 04505nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910452612603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07367-3 010 $a0-674-07365-7 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674073654 035 $a(CKB)2550000001039101 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018204 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000835343 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11966473 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000835343 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10990055 035 $a(PQKB)10300096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301244 035 $a(DE-B1597)209815 035 $a(OCoLC)1024011195 035 $a(OCoLC)1029814735 035 $a(OCoLC)1032677623 035 $a(OCoLC)1037979668 035 $a(OCoLC)1041814966 035 $a(OCoLC)1042106931 035 $a(OCoLC)979967840 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674073654 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301244 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10669201 035 $a(OCoLC)831676444 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001039101 100 $a20121005d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFDR and the Jews$b[electronic resource] /$fRichard Breitman, Allan J. Lichtman 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (vi, 433 pages ) $cillustrations 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-05026-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $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. 517 3 $aF.D.R. and the Jews 606 $aJews$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aJews, European$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 606 $aJews$zPersecutions$zEurope$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGermany 607 $aGermany$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1933-1945 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJews$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aJews, European$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 615 0$aJews$xHistory 676 $a973.917092 700 $aBreitman$b Richard$f1947-$0166969 701 $aLichtman$b Allan J$01035295 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452612603321 996 $aFDR and the Jews$92454922 997 $aUNINA