Why We Watched: Europe, America, and the Holocaust [First edition] 978-0-393-06968-6, 0393069680

Table of contents :
Content: The Siren Song of Emancipation --
pt. 1: The Great Depression and anti-Semitism. Eastern Europe in crisis
A French predicament
Britain wrestles with the refugee problem
Seeking asylum in the New World : the United States
Seeking asylum in the New World : Canada or Latin America? --
pt. 2: The unending American debate. In search of a haven
The war of words
A Jewish hush-hush strategy
Scylla, Charybdis, and Washington, D.C. --
pt. 3: The destruction of European Jewery. The start of a genocide
Militant Jews, circumspect Jews, and doomed Jews
A statecraft of carefully calibrated compassion
Should more have been done to stop the Holocaust? --
pt. 4: From victimhood to martyrdom. The twilight of European Jewry
The emergence of the Holocaust.

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