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by Haskel Lookstein

Book Overview

A major work that explores in depth the American Jewish response to the Holocaust as it occurred. By examining contemporary Jewish press accounts of such events as Kristallnacht, the refusal to allow... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394755987
• ISBN13: 9780394755984
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

When Good People Do Nothing

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.