New York Times and the news about the Holocaust: a quantified study
TitleThe New York Times and the news about the Holocaust: a quantified study
Author
Call number940.5318/0511
Object number09829c
Place of publicationJerusalem
Year of publication
1980
Physical descriptionpp45-73
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Proceedings of the Seventh World Congress of Jewish Studies: Holocaust Research.' pp45-73
Description
It is generally agreed that more could have been done by the United States to rescue European Jewry during World War II. There is no individual, institution or factor that can be isolated as responsible for this policy. American rescue policy may be attributed to the state of the economy in the late 1930s, organized antisemitism, the role of the Roosevelt administraion, the political ineffectiveness of American Jewry and other factors. There was fear that refugees would exacerbate the unemployment problem. The New York Times a few days after 'Kristallnacht' sited it as one reason why the immigration quotas could not be removed