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Bearing Witness

How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust

By: Henry L. Feingold

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Bearing Witness

How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust

By: Henry L. Feingold

One of America's most prominent historians probes the haunting question of why the efforts of the American government and Jewish leaders were ineffective in halting or mitigating Berlin's genocidal policy during the Holocaust. Focusing on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American Jewish leadership, Henry L. Feingold anchors the American reaction to the Holocaust in the tension-ridden domestic environment of the depression to the international scene. In these essays, he argues that the constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 40s and the extraordinary events of the time virtually made it impossible for the administration and American Jews to react differently.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815626703

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9780815626701

Midrash on American Jewish History

By: Henry L. Feingold

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Midrash on American Jewish History

By: Henry L. Feingold

Explores American Jewish history.

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State University of New York Press

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1438402457

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9781438402451

A Time for Searching

Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945

By: Henry L. Feingold

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A Time for Searching

Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945

By: Henry L. Feingold

In this fourth volume, [the author] notes that the decline of religiousness in the second and third generations of American Jews was balanced by the development of an activist political culture based an elaborate organizational life, an effective fund-raising apparatus, and Zionism, with its notion of Jewish peoplehood. That reshaping of American Jewish individual and communal identity in some measure accounts for the insufficient response to the plight of European Jews during the Holocaust. American Jewry's remarkable achievement in the private sphere overshadowed its weakness in the public one"--Series Editor's forword.

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JHU Press

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0801851238

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9780801851230

Zion in America

The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Henry L. Feingold

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Zion in America

The Jewish Experience from Colonial Times to the Present

By: Henry L. Feingold

Scholarly survey covers Old World origins; profiles of New World cultures of German and Eastern European Jews; the effects of changing political and economic climates; and immigrant settlement on the Lower East Side settlement.

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Courier Corporation

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0486148335

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9780486148335

American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion

By: Henry L. Feingold

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American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion

By: Henry L. Feingold

American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion begins with the historical background of American Jewish politics before delving into old roots and then moving onto a thematic understanding of American Jewry’s political psyche. This exhaustive work answers the grand question of where American Jewish liberalism comes from and ultimately questions whether the communal motivations behind such behavior are strong enough to withstand twenty-first-century America.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815652445

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9780815652441

Silent No More

Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989

By: Henry L. Feingold

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Silent No More

Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989

By: Henry L. Feingold

Leading scholar and author of the celebrated five-volume series, The Jewish People in America, Henry L. Feingold offers a fresh and inspiring look at the Russian/Soviet Jewish emigration phenomenon. Haunted by its sense of failure during the Holocaust, the Soviet Jewry movement set for itself an almost unrealizable goal of finding sanctuary for Jews from a hostile Soviet government. Working together with activists in Israel and Europe, and with a remarkable group of refuseniks that had been denied the right to emigrate, this courageous group mounted a relentless campaign lasting almost three decades. Although Feingold credits Israel with initiating the struggle for Soviet Jewry and fostering it within American Jewry, he maintains that it was the actions of a secure and confident American Jewry that finally delivered the Jews from the Soviet Union. Feingold’s mastery of detail and broadness of scope provide a prodigious and sweeping account of the American Jewish movement. He finds early roots of the effort in the American Jewish involvement with Jewish emigration in late Tsarist Russia. He highlights both the human dimension of the exodus and the complex international ramifications of the movement, especially in the Middle East. "Silent No More" concludes by pondering the role of the movement’s effective public relations campaign, which focused on the human right of freedom of movement in hastening the collapse of the Soviet empire. Feingold’s rigorous scholarship sheds light on an important, yet rarely told episode in history, one that will enliven further examination of the subject. This book will be of interest to scholars of American Jewish history, the cold war, Israeli studies, and American ethnic and immigration history.

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0815631014

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9780815631019

Jewish Power in America

Myth and Reality

By: Henry Feingold

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Jewish Power in America

Myth and Reality

By: Henry Feingold

Jewish political power exists as a separate agency in the American polity, but before it can be determined whether it is inordinate, historian Henry L. Feingold declares that it first needs to be identified and defined. Jewish power is not associated with military armaments as with a sovereign state like Israel. Nor is it personal power. There are many influential Jews today who have raised huge sums for office seekers, but there are none whose use of financial resources was inordinate. With the exception of an abiding concern with the security of Israel, there are no overriding public policy concerns that differentiate Jewish voters from the informed, educated segment of the American electorate. Feingold acknowledges that American Jews do have political power. But what kind is it, and how does it compare to the power exercised by other ethnic and interest groups that thrive in the American polity? The basic charge of those who have raised the alarm about Jewish power—that it is used conspiratorially against the national interest—is addressed and repudiated. This book addresses the question of Jewish power by examining five recent major instances, beginning with the New Deal, when the play of Jewish power, or power exercised by Jews, was evident. The engagement of American Jewry in the political process is amply documented by survey research and evidenced by the disproportionate number of Jewish office holders on all levels of government. It can be traced in some measure to its relationship to European Jewish migration and to the inherent activism of the political left. The work presents the reader with a broadly comprehensive and highly informative picture of American Jewish participation in the American polity.

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Routledge

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1351510878

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A Time for Searching

Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945

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Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945

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Midrash on American Jewish History

By: Henry L. Feingold

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Explores American Jewish history.

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Jewish Power in America

Myth and Reality

By: Henry L. Feingold

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Myth and Reality

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This work examines Jewish power in America by examining five major instances beginning with the New Deal when the play of Jewish power, or power exercised by Jews, was evident.

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Jewish Power in America

Myth and Reality

By: Henry Feingold

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Myth and Reality

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Bearing Witness

How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust

By: Henry L. Feingold

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How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust

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Silent No More

Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989

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Saving the Jews of Russia, the American Jewish Effort, 1967-1989

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American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion

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Bearing Witness

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Midrash on American Jewish History

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Silent No More

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Jewish Power in America

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A Time for Searching

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Midrash on American Jewish History

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Jewish Power in America

Bearing Witness

Bearing Witness

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American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion

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