{"product_id":"the-jews-should-keep-quiet-9780827614703","title":"The Jews Should Keep Quiet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on recently discovered documents, Rafael Medoff reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration’s fateful policies concerning European Jewry during the Holocaust.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Judicious and nuanced.\"—Drew Darien, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Meticulously documented . . . sober . . . an important contribution to our understanding of the American government's response to the Holocaust, and that of Franklin D. Roosevelt at the helm of power.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ehe Jews Should Keep Quiet \u003c\/i\u003eis the culmination of more than three decades of research, and it is devastating. Few readers will come away from Rafael Medoff ’s book without their view of FDR having been signicantly changed.\"—David G. Dalin, \u003ci\u003eJewish Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers with an interest in World War II, 20th-century political history, Jewish history, and the Holocaust should find this an incisive and insightful exploration of the leading figures of this period.\"—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\"With meticulous detail, Medoff documents the entwined failures of an indifferent president and a sycophantic Jewish leader.\"—Jerold Auerbach, \u003ci\u003eAlgemeiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An essential study shedding further light on a watershed period, attempting a challenging balanced approach with irrefutable evidence condemning two major figures whose close collaboration ultimately carried disastrous consequences.\"—\u003ci\u003eCCAR Journal\/The Reform Jewish Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This sad chapter in the history of American Jewry should serve as a keen example to all in today's Jewish community that we cannot assume that liberal, left-wing ideology is inherently pro-Jewish.\"—Alan Jay Gerber, \u003ci\u003eJewish Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"T\u003ci\u003ehe Jews Should Keep Quiet\u003c\/i\u003e is a historical accounting of lies, deceptions and subterfuge promulgated by Roosevelt and his administration on American Jews and their leaders together with the struggles of Wise, as a recognized Jewish leader, and the American Jewish community against the tide of growing anti-Semitism and a racially-biased president. Medoff, as a first-rate historian of the Holocaust, clearly communicates what my poorly educated immigrant grandmother instinctively recognized, 'Roosevelt was a great president, except for the Jews.'\"—Fred Reiss, \u003ci\u003eSan Diego Jewish World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers interested in American Jewish history or American politics will definitely want to read this unsettling, but important, work.\"—Rabbi Rachel Esserman, \u003ci\u003eReporter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rafael Medoff . . . has come closer than anyone before him to explaining the inexplicable. He does so in a new book titled, \u003ci\u003eThe Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—Sol Stern, \u003ci\u003eTablet Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments    \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “If Only He Would Do Something for My People!”    \u003cbr\u003e 1. “Nothing but Indifference”    \u003cbr\u003e 2. In Search of Havens    \u003cbr\u003e 3. Silence and Its Consequences    \u003cbr\u003e 4. Suppressing the Dissidents    \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Politics of Rescue    \u003cbr\u003e 6. FDR, Wise, and Palestine    \u003cbr\u003e 7. The Failure to Bomb Auschwitz    \u003cbr\u003e 8. Antisemitism in the White House    \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: A President’s Strategy and a Rabbi’s Anguish    \u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography    \u003cbr\u003e Index    \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jewish Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406205591895,"sku":"9780827614703","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780827614703.jpg?v=1730494923","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-jews-should-keep-quiet-9780827614703","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}