{"product_id":"america-and-the-holocaust-a-documentary-history-9780827615182","title":"America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History","description":"\u003cp\u003e 2023\u003ci\u003e Choice\u003c\/i\u003e Outstanding Academic Title \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The first comprehensive volume to teach about America's response to the Holocaust through visual media, \u003ci\u003eAmerica and the Holocaust: A Documentary History\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Each chapter pivots on five key documents: two in image form and three in text form. Individual introductions that contextualize the documents are followed by explanatory text, analysis of historical implications, and suggestions for further reading. A concluding state-of-the-field essay documents how scholars have arrived at the presented information. A complementary teacher's guide with questions for discussion is available online. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The twenty chapters address a broad range of subjects and events, among them America's response to Hitler's rise, U.S. public opinion about Jews, immigration policy, the Wagner-Rogers bill to save children, American rescuers, news coverage of atrocities, American Jewish and Christian responses to the Holocaust, the campaign for U.S. rescue action, the question of bombing Auschwitz, and liberation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Viewing real documents as a means to understanding core issues will deepen reader involvement with this material. High school and college students as well as general readers of all levels of knowledge will be engaged in understanding this crucial chapter in American history and weighing questions regarding mass atrocities in our own era. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRafael Medoff \u003c\/b\u003eis founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the coeditor of the institute's online \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written more than twenty books about American Jewish history, the Holocaust, and related topics, including \u003ci\u003eThe Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e (JPS, 2019). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50678989455634,"sku":"9780827615182","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35b31f20-f6d1-4a91-b142-f48c86d8f4cd.jpg?v=1733898764","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/america-and-the-holocaust-a-documentary-history-9780827615182","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}