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An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's 'final solution' was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy.
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    Cambridge University Press
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    April 10, 2006
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    English
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"...[an] important book..."
-New York Post

"...excellent..."
-Commentary Magazine

"Laurel Leff has written an exceptional study of one of the darkest failures of the New York Times--its non-coverage of the holocaust during World War II. How could the best newspaper in the United States, perhaps in the world, under-estimate and under-report the mass killing of more than 6,000,000 Jews? Read this book, which provides answers and in the process stands tall in scholarship, style and importance."
-Marvin Kalb, Senior Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy

"Laurel Leff[...]has done a fine job...[a] wonderful book..."
-New York Daily News

"...impressive..."
-The New York Times

"This is the best book yet about American media coverage of the Holocaust, as well as an extremely important contribution to our understanding of America's response to the mass murder of the Jews."
-David S. Wyman, author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust

"This important book answers--in a compelling fashion--some of the questions which have long been asked about the New York Times' coverage of the Holocaust. Probing far behind the headlines, Leff tells the fascinating story of how the Sulzberger family was rescuing its relatives from Germany at the same time that it was burying the story of the Holocaust in the inner recesses of the paper."
-Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust

"Laurel Leff has written an engrossing and important book about the abject failure of the world's most influential newspaper, The New York Times, to report on the Holocaust its owner and key figures knew was occurring. Her book tells us much about America at the time, the level of anti-Semitism, and the assimilationist desire of the Jewish owner of the Times to avoid stressing the unique Jewish nature of the genocide. It is part and parcel with the same mindset of the Roosevelt Administration. One can only wonder in great sorrow at how many lives might have been saved if the nation's and world's conscience had been touched by full and complete coverage by the Times of what remains the greatest crime of world history."
-Stuart E. Eizenstat, former senior official in the Clinton Administration and the Special Representative of President Clinton on Holocaust-Era Issues. Author of Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II

"...skilfully[...]written, researched, and analyzed..."
-New Haven Advocate

"A complicated important look back."
-The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

"This is a well-researched and well-written book."
-Haim Genizi, The Journal of American History

"Buried by the Times is admirably relentless."
-Ron Hollander, Montclair State University, American Jewish History

..."thoroughly researched and so carefully written." -Owen V. Johnson, Jhistory

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How The New York Times failed in its coverage of European Jews from 1939–45.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press; Illustrated edition (April 10, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 444 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0521607825
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521607827
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.12 x 9 inches
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Forse
5.0 out of 5 stars An important, very readable, book
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2021
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I really enjoyed this book. It's a page-turner! Which you wouldn't think, given the subject. But it is, written very well. It does get a bit repetitive, at times, which I guess goes a bit against that, but it's forgivable, for the subject is complex and deep.
The reasons The New York Times buried stories about the Holocaust is not a simple one.
All sorts of factors played out: the government itself not highlighting the news; the concerns that "too much semitic material" could harm the overall war effort; concern that the truth would not be believed; concern about American anti-semitism of the times.
And, most importantly, the philosophical aversion of the proprietor, Arthur H. Sulzberger (from German Jewish forebears) to do any "special pleading" for Jews; his assimilationist bent -- Jews are not a race or a people, just those with a religious belief; his arguments with Zionists and the issue of Palestine.
All these factored into what happened to news about the destruction of European Jewry. It wasn't that the news was not known or that it was ignored. Rather that it was buried on inside pages.
Buried. By the Times and by the times.
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Vivian Wallace Allen
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2021
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This book broke my heart. To think that this took place from just a few years before and up to when I was born is unthinkable.
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Zackary D. Barron
5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
Reviewed in the United States on January 30, 2017
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This book was fantastic, though the title was a little misleading. If you're expecting the author to make a full throated attack on the NYT for their poor reporting on the plight of Jews then you may be disappointed. But if you're expecting a very detailed analysis and chronology of the events, decisions, and circumstances that led to that reporting then this is a great read. Also gives fantastic context into how Arthur Sulzberger approached being a Jew versus being a Zionist.
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Werner Cohn
4.0 out of 5 stars Missing: A Comparative Treatment
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2006
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Laurel Leff has given us a nicely detailed description of how the New York Times, then as now the most eminent newspaper in the country, failed to appreciate the historical significance of the Holocaust while it was under way in Europe.

This was not a matter of suppression of news. Whatever news was available was published in the Times, but it was buried in back pages. The Nazis' systematic killings of Jews, when news of them reached the West, were not accorded the front-page status that, in hindsight, these events warranted. And here lies the fundamental weakness of the book as I see it. The author's vision is ahistorical, anachronistic; it applies what we know now to a judgement of what was done then.

Nevertheless, Leff's book cannot help but be of importance to anyone interested in the period. Her strongest point is the role of Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of the Times from 1935 to 1945. Scion of a wealthy family of German Jews, living in a period in which Jews were still excluded from many positions of influence and were strictly limited in the prestige universities, Sulzberger felt uneasy about his Jewish identify. He was, in the language of those days, an assimilationist. He was very much worried that the public might consider him a Jew before it recognized him as a newspaper man. Leff's description of his role in the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism is most enlightening. But, as Leff also points out, the Reform Judaism of his day was also largely anti-Zionist. Sulzberger was not the only, nor the most rabid of the anti-Zionists among prominent American Jews. In any case, as Leff indicates, he was also basically fair-minded and was not given to suppressing news.

The extent to which Sulzberger's personal values may have influenced the Times's coverage of the Holocaust is not clear. This question, as well as the larger question of how unique the Times was in its Holocaust treatment, can only be explored by a comparative treatment. How did the Times compare with other news outlets ? How much better could it have done, given the limitations in the world's understanding of the significance of the Holocaust while it was in progress ? Leff suggests that the Times was not unique, but she gives no particulars. She is not interested in making comparisons with other papers, either here or abroad.

The New York Yiddish press of those days was still very important and very vibrant. There were several Yiddish dailies, with the Morning Journal and the Forward probably the most important. There was also the Tug (Day), and the Freiheit, the Communist Yiddish daily. Leff takes scant interest in any of these. She certainly does not do what would be required to understand the Times's treatment of the Holocaust, viz. a detailed comparative analysis of the Yiddish press accounts in relationship to those of the Times.

We are left with a description of what happened at the Times only, and this description is both enlightening and thorough. But we are not told whether, with all of Sulberger's qualms and other institutional peculiarities of the Times, that newspaper could have given us a sustained, balanced, meaningful treatment of the Holocaust as it was unfolding, given the fact that the world simply could not grasp the horror and the novelty of the Nazi crime.

I was a newspaper reader in those days, not only of the Times, but also of a variety of Jewish sources (but not of the Yiddish press). I read all the little facts. But I had no inkling of what was really happening, of the magnitude of the Holocaust. That came to me, as it did to the rest of the world, only some years after the war.
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Monique Sue
5.0 out of 5 stars To think when I was young and naive, I used to read this paper, thinking I was getting the news. What a waste of time that was.
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2016
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Wow! Who could have imagined how corrupt the New York Times was so long ago - 80 years ago they were already hiding the truth from the public. I discovered myself about 35 years ago that you don't get the truth in the NYT, but distortions or complete covering up. But I didn't know this policy of hiding the truth from the public dated back to the mid 1930s. A real thorough and extensively documented eye-opener.
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Bernie Freedman
5.0 out of 5 stars Shame on the New York Times (Anti Semitism)
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2013
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This book proves conclusively that the New York Times deliberately refused to report virtually anything at all about the Holocaust during World War Two. The owners of the Times admitted this and excused itself because they are Jewish.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a MUST READ. You'll understand how news are ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017
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It's a MUST READ. You'll understand how news are made (especially in the era of Fake News and Spin-misters).
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5.0 out of 5 stars Times hasn't learned a thing
Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024
The Times hasn't learned any lessons over the decade. They continue to whitewash murderous Chinese and Russian communist regimes. They even refuse to return a Pulitzer after it was admitted by columnist Duranty that he released party talking points in his articles refuting Stalin's forced famine in Ukraine even when he privately admitted to knowledge of the famine.
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Joseph Myren
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