Were American Jews and their leaders responsive to news of the Holocaust?(Letters to the Editor)(Letter to the editor)

Midstream, March, 2008 by Brodetzky, Moshe; Leff, Laurel; Medoff, Rafael; Miller, Paul; Roth, Beth; Stern, Jonathan; Zucker, Bat-Ami

To the Editor:

Bette Roth Young (Midstream, March/ April 2007) cites the convening of the American Jewish Conference in 1943 as evidence that "American Jews did not sit idly by" during the Holocaust. She describes the conference as an "astonishing achievement" which "has been given inadequate attention by chroniclers of the American Jewish community at that time."

Inadequate attention? One can find descriptions and analysis of the AJConference in, among other books, David S. Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews (pp.160-170), Henry Feingold's The Politics of Rescue (pp. 218-220 and 236-239), Monty Penkower's The Holocaust and Israel Reborn (pp.38-46), Haskel Lookstein's Were We Our Brothers' Keepers? (pp.166-169), Aaron Berman's Nazism, the Jews and...

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