{"product_id":"the-abandonment-of-the-jews-america-and-the-holocaust-1941-1945-9781595581747","title":"The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Abandonment of the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e received enormous critical and commercial attention when it was first released in 1984, appearing on the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list for five weeks as well as on its Best Books of the Year list. A selection of the History Book Club and the Jewish Book Club, it has sold over 100,000 copies in its various editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark work, David S. Wyman argues that a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousand of the Nazis' victims. Widely considered to be the definitive book on the subject, \u003ci\u003eThe Abandonment of the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e won the National Jewish Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition includes a new preface by the author discussing the ongoing controversy aroused by the book since its original publication.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid S. Wyman (1929-2018) was the chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and emeritus professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Press) and \u003cem\u003ePaper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941\u003c\/em\u003e; the co-author, with Rafael Medoff, of \u003cem\u003eA Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e (The New Press); and the editor of the thirteen-volume \u003cem\u003eAmerica and the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe World Reacts to the Holocaust\u003c\/em\u003e. He holds honorary doctorates from Hebrew Union College and Yeshiva University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50601011937554,"sku":"9781595581747","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_444e6f2d-c5d8-406e-9c40-c7b8be124fe0.jpg?v=1732219330","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-abandonment-of-the-jews-america-and-the-holocaust-1941-1945-9781595581747","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}