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Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies)
Rafael Medoff
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Description for Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies)
Paperback. Tells the story of Josiah E DuBois, Jr, a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. This book tells how Dubois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take action to rescue the displaced Jews. Editor(s): Medoff, Dr. Rafael. Series: Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJH; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 227.
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many countries refused to allow Jewish immigration. The United States spurred on by the America First Committee wanted to remain neutral during the early days of World War II. Anti-Semitic influences kept the United States from filing its quotas for refugees supposedly to keep Nazi spies out of the country. Dubois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take ... Read more
Blowing the Whistle on Genocide tells the story of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr., a young Treasury Department lawyer who risked his career to alert the world to the Holocaust. As Nazism rose in Germany, many countries refused to allow Jewish immigration. The United States spurred on by the America First Committee wanted to remain neutral during the early days of World War II. Anti-Semitic influences kept the United States from filing its quotas for refugees supposedly to keep Nazi spies out of the country. Dubois exposed the inequities in America's refugee policy and forced the United States government to take ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Condition
New
Series
Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies
Number of Pages
157
Place of Publication
West Lafayette, United States
ISBN
9781557535078
SKU
V9781557535078
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About Rafael Medoff
Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on issues related to America's response to the Holocaust (www.WymanInstitute.org). He has served as associate editor of the scholarly journal American Jewish History and is the author of seven books about the Holocaust, Zionism, and the history of American Jewry. Medoff has taught ... Read more
Reviews for Blowing the Whistle on Genocide: Josiah E. DuBois, Jr. and the Struggle for a U.S. Response to the Holocaust (Shofar Supplements in Jewish Studies)
Well, let's face it. There's no question in my mind that some of the people over there [US State Department]
I put their names in my book
were actually just plain anti-Semitic. It's just that simple, there's no question"— transcript of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr during a tape-recorded interview conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library, 1973
I put their names in my book
were actually just plain anti-Semitic. It's just that simple, there's no question"— transcript of Josiah E. DuBois, Jr during a tape-recorded interview conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library, 1973