American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945

by Alan M. Kraut and Richard Breitman

How does one explain America's failure to take bold action to resist the Nazi persecution and murder of European Jews? In contrast to recent writers who place the blame on anti-Semitism in American society at large and within the Roosevelt administration in particular, Richard Breitman and Alan M. Kraut seek the answer in a detailed analysis of American political realities and bureaucratic processes. Drawing on exhaustive archival research, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253304156
• ISBN13: 9780253304155
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher