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Author Hamerow, Theodore S.

Title Why we watched : Europe, America, and the Holocaust / Theodore S. Hamerow.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co, 2008.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 H17    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 HAM    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5318 HAMEROW    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  940.5318 HAMEROW    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxi, 520 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [493]-498) and index.
Contents The siren song of emancipation -- 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 Lain America? -- The unending American debate: In search of a haven -- The war of words -- A Jewish hush-hush strategy -- Scylla, Charybdis, and Washington, D.C. -- 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 don to stop the Holocaust? -- From victimhood to martyrdom: The twilight of European Jewry -- The emergence of the Holocaust.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Causes.
Antisemitism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Europe -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
ISBN 9780393064629 hardcover
039306462X hardcover
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