“Retribution Is Not Enough”: The 1943 Campaign by Jewish Students to Raise American Public Awareness of the Nazi Genocide
Historians have documented many of the factors that contributed to raising American public consciousness about the Final Solution. A heretofore unexplored factor is the work of a group of Jewish student activists at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City in 1942 and 1943. Their pressure pr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1997
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1997, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-189 |
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| Summary: | Historians have documented many of the factors that contributed to raising American public consciousness about the Final Solution. A heretofore unexplored factor is the work of a group of Jewish student activists at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City in 1942 and 1943. Their pressure prompted the Synagogue Council of America to launch a major nationwide campaign—in which the students played a central role—during the spring of 1943, to educate American Jews and Christians about the Nazi atrocities and the need for Allied intervention. The Synagogue Council's campaign contributed significantly to the process of putting the Holocaust on America's agenda. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/11.2.171 |