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Book

Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust

Call Number

  • 940.5318 H214 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2008.

Physical Description

xxi, 520 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • pt. 1. The Great Depression and anti-Semitism: Eastern Europe in crisis
  • A French predicament
  • Britain wrestles with the refugee problem
  • Seeking asylum in the New World: The United States, Canada or Latin America?
  • pt. 2. The unending American debate: In search of a haven
  • The war of words
  • A Jewish hush-hush strategy
  • Scylla, Charybdis, and Washington, D.C.
  • pt. 3. The destruction of European Jewery: The start of a genocide
  • Militant Jews, circumspect Jews, and doomed Jews
  • A statecraft of carefully calibrated compassion
  • Should more have been done to stop the Holocaust?
  • pt. 4. From victimhood to martyrdom
  • The twilight of European Jewery
  • The emergence of the Holocaust.

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