In his landmark work, author David S. Wyman contends that a substantial commitment to rescue Jewish people on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousands of the Nazis' victims. This reissued edition contains a new Afterword by Wyman addressing the controversy his work has aroused.

A monumental and damning analysis of America's failure to aid European Jews during World War II. Introduction by Elie Wiesel.

Contending that a substantial commitment by the United States to rescuing Jewish people could have saved hundreds of thousands of Nazi victims, this reissue is in response to controversies surrounding the role of the Swiss, the French, the Americans and others during the period in question. The author sets out to show that, whilst the Nazis were the murderers, Americans were all-too-passive accomplices.

New paperback edition of a landmark work that remains the definitive book on America's response to the Holocaust. In addition to a new cover design and Elie Wiesel's original foreword to the 1984 edition - and his 1998 afterword - this edition includes a new preface by the author discussing recent scholarship on the American response to the Holocaust.

About America's ignorance of the Jews' plight during the Holocaust. The book focuses on America's failure to bomb the concentration camps and on its restrictive immigration policies from 1941 to 1945.

The author sets out to show that, whilst the Nazis were the murderers, Americans were all-too-passive accomplices, contending that a substantial commitment by the United States to rescuing Jewish people could have saved hundreds of thousands of Nazi victims.

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A study of the failure of the USA to carry out a major rescue effort to save the Jews of Europe, due to the hostility of the State Department to Jewish immigration; the lack of cooperation from Roosevelt and his administration who feared an influx of Jews; the lack of strong public pressure on account of antisemitism and anti-immigrant attitudes; and the indifference of Americans in general, including the mass media and the Churches, to the Holocaust. Provides new evidence for the personal responsibility of President Roosevelt. Cites the failure of American Jewish organizations to make an effective response.

The Abandonment of the Jews is the definitive work on its subject. The text argues how a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the US almost certainly could have saved thousands of the Nazi's victims.

In 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, The Abandonment of the Jews 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.

The Abandonment of the Jews received enormous critical and commercial attention when it was first released in 1984, appearing on the New York Times bestseller 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. In 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, The Abandonment of the Jews 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. This edition includes a new preface by the author discussing the ongoing controversy aroused by the book since its original publication.

In 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.

A study of America's response to the Nazi assault on European Jews during World War II, charging that the U.S. failed to take action that could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives.