America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism

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"This meticulously researched and brilliantly argued account of AmericanJewry and the Nazi crisis is an outstanding achievement.... This is history at itsbest, a work of humane and balanced scholarship that unveils the nuances andambiguities of the human experience. Framed within a compelling narrative, it isbeautifully written with lucid restraint, yet deep compassion.... an essentialcorrective to an often misunderstood history." -- SaulFriedlander

What did American Jews do to help the threatenedJewish communities of Europe as the Nazi grip tightened in the 1930s? Why didn'tthey do more to help Jews leave Europe and bring them to America? Probing thesequestions, Gulie Ne'eman Arad finds that, more than the events themselves, what wasinstrumental in dictating and shaping the American Jews' response to Nazism was thedilemma posed by their desire for acceptance by American society, on the one hand, and their commitment to community solidarity, on the other. When American Jews werefaced with the desperate plight of European Jews after Hitler's accession to power, they were hesitant to press the case for immigration for fear of raising doubtsabout their own patriotism. In this gripping and thoroughly researched account, Aradcontextualizes the American Jewish encounter with Nazism within the overall historyof the American Jewish experience from the mid-19th century and offers a persuasiveexplanation of the ambivalent political response of American Jewish leaders indealing with the Roosevelt administration.