Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust / Theodore S. Hamerow.

Author/creator Hamerow, Theodore S.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2008.
Descriptionxxi, 520 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [493]-498) and index.
LCCN 2008004318
ISBN9780393064629 (hardcover)
ISBN039306462X (hardcover)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks D 804.3 .H355 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold