Bearing Witness - How America and Its Jews Responded to the Holocaust

"Reinforces Feingold's reputation as the dean of American historians dealing with the rescue issue". -- Jewish Book World

About the author

Henry L. Feingold is professor of history at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books including Lest Memory Cease: Finding Meaning in the American Jewish Past and American Jewish Political Culture and the Liberal Persuasion.

Summary

This text focuses on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American reaction to the Holocaust in the domestic environment of the Depression to the international scene. The constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 1940s is also included here.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Feingold, Henry L. Feingold
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1995
• EAN: 9780815626701
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2670-1
• No. of pages: 332
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Modern Jewish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education