The United States and the Nazi Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1472567188 ISBN13: 9781472567185 Release Date: February 2018 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic Length: 256 Pages Weight: 0.95 lbs. Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1" The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 right up to the modern day. The book, which includes 20 illustrations, weaves together a vast body of scholarly literature to bring students of the Holocaust a balanced, readable overview of this complex and often controversial topic. It demonstrates that the United States' response to the rise of Nazism, the refugee crisis it provoked, the Holocaust itself, and its aftermath were-and remain to this day-intricately linked to the ever-shifting racial, economic, and social status of American Jewry. Using a broad chronological framework, Barry Trachtenberg navigates us through the major themes and events of