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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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When Good People Do Nothing,
By Geoffry White (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?: The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944 (Hardcover)
This is a courageous book. The author,a rabbi, takes a critical look at how and why American Jews remained mysteriously silent during the Holocaust. In most crimes there are three participants: the victim, the perpetrator and the bystander. American Jews were, for the mostpart, bystanders to the Nazi evil prior to and during World War II. Why? In part,there was tremendous anti-immigrant and anti-Jewish sentiment during this time. Franklin Roosevelt was seen by many as a friend and protector of American Jews. To criticize his hands-off policy regarding European Jews might be betraying Roosevelts' paternalistic protection of the vulnerable community of American Jews. But these explanations do not fully satisfy. Haskel Lookstein probes deeply and honestly into an historically avoided subject.
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Were We Our Brothers' Keepers?: The Public Response of American Jews to the Holocaust, 1938-1944 by Haskel Lookstein (Hardcover - Dec. 1985)
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