Description:
The first comprehensive volume to teach about America's response to the Holocaust through visual media, America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History explores the complex subject through the lens of one hundred important documents that help illuminate and amplify key episodes and issues.
Brief description:
Rafael Medoff is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and coeditor of the institute's online Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust. He has written more than twenty books, including The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (JPS, 2019) and America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (JPS, 2022).
Review Quotes: "This is an important and long-overdue book--exactly the material students need to understand this crucial chapter in American history and inform them as they consider issues related to genocide in our own time."--Bat-Ami Zucker, professor of American history at Bar Ilan University