Bearing Witness

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Bearing Witness is written by Henry L. Feingold and published by Syracuse University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0815626703 (ISBN 10) and 9780815626701 (ISBN 13).

One of America's most prominent historians probes the haunting question of why the efforts of the American government and Jewish leaders were ineffective in halting or mitigating Berlin's genocidal policy during the Holocaust. Focusing on the role of the Roosevelt administration and American Jewish leadership, Henry L. Feingold anchors the American reaction to the Holocaust in the tension-ridden domestic environment of the depression to the international scene. In these essays, he argues that the constraints of the American political system in the 1930s and 40s and the extraordinary events of the time virtually made it impossible for the administration and American Jews to react differently.