Journal of Ecumenical Studies back issues from September 2003:
Preface: David S. Wyman and the Cosmic Dance of Dialogue.
Sep 22, 2003; ... Why a special issue of the Journal of Ecumenical Studies devoted to the celebration of the work of David Wyman in seeking the truth concerning the relationship of the mostly Christian America (and American Jews) to the Jews caught in the maw of the Nazi Holocaust? Answer: Because since its ...
Foreword.
Sep 22, 2003; ... Rare is the book that reshapes the historiography of its field, changes the way the American public understands its history, and influences Christian-Jewish relations in America and beyond. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945, by David S. Wyman, is such a ...
Introduction.
Sep 22, 2003; ... This special journal issue honoring the twentieth anniversary of the publication of The Abandonment of the Jews by David S. Wyman is a fitting homage to the concerns and challenges that he personally articulated and wrestled with. Its pages mirror his anguish and his hope, his ...
America, the Holocaust, and The Abandonment of the Jews.
Sep 22, 2003; ... "We will not see a better book on this subject in our lifetime," Leonard Dinnerstein wrote in 1985 of David S. Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. (1) It also seems likely we will not see a better-received and more influential book on the subject. The ...
David S. Wyman and the controversy over the bombing of Auschwitz.
Sep 22, 2003; ... Of the many examples of American indifference to the plight of European Jewry before and during the Second World War, none seem to resonate as loudly and persistently as the failure to bomb the killing machinery at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Although constituting only one short chapter of David ...
Fudging the numbers: a closer look at the use of statistics by some critics of The Abandonment of the Jews.
Sep 22, 2003; ... In 1997, The Myth of Rescue: Why the Democracies Could Not Have Saved More Jews from the Nazis by British historian William Rubinstein was published. The Myth, which was the first (and only) book-length attack on David Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews, (1) made the sweeping claim that ...
American Catholic responses to the Holocaust: an exchange between David S. Wyman and Eugene J. Fisher.
Sep 22, 2003 ... I From a review by Eugene J. Fisher of The Abandonment of the Jews, National Catholic News Service, February 15, 1985: <Pre> Wyman scores the U.S. Christian community for its virtual"silence" on the subject .... He states, for example, that "nomajor ...
Marching with the Bergson group: a memoir.
Sep 22, 2003; ... During the early 1940's, I was attracted to a group that was demanding the rescue of the Jews of Europe. The organizers were several young men who had come from Palestine to the United States to represent the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the armed offshoot in Palestine of the most nationalist of ...
Reflections on The Abandonment of the Jews: a symposium.(David Wyman's The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945)
Sep 22, 2003 ... Lawrence Baron: I first became aware of David Wyman's research when I was writing an article about the response of the residents of Oswego, New York, to the internment of refugees, mostly European Jews, in the nearby abandoned Fort Ontario Army base from the Summer of 1944 until ...
"Liberated by the Yanks": the Holocaust as an American story in postwar news articles.
Sep 22, 2003; ... During World War II, The Washington Post was essentially a local newspaper whose hometown just happened to be the nation's capital. Like most American newspapers, it did not send many reporters abroad, relying primarily on the wire services to keep its readers abreast of the war's ...
From literary gadfly to Jewish activist: the political transformation of Ben Hecht.(Biography)
Sep 22, 2003; ... When Ben Hecht was six years old, he and his Tante (Aunt) Chasha went to the theater. A policeman on stage unfairly accused another actor of stealing, prompting an indignant Bennie Hecht to shout from the balcony that the policeman imprisoned the wrong man. Ushers brusquely escorted the ...
The evolution of American orthodox relief and rescue efforts during the Holocaust: two documents.
Sep 22, 2003; ... The "Emergency Committee for War-Torn Yeshivoth" or the Vaad ha-Hatzala, was established by the Agudat ha-Rabbanim (Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada) in the Fall of 1939 in the wake of the escape to Lithuania of hundreds of rabbis and yeshiva students from the elite ...
Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and American Jewry's response to the Holocaust.
Sep 22, 2003; ... One of the many important questions addressed by David S. Wyman in The Abandonment of the Jews (1) was the response of American Jewry to the Nazi genocide. Wyman explored the political and personal rivalries that hampered the American Jewish leadership's impact on Allied policy, as well as ...
Afterword.
Sep 22, 2003; ... It is refreshing and encouraging to see the essays that have been brought together in this volume. It is especially heartening to find new work by younger scholars regarding the United States and the Holocaust. New approaches, new insights. And, most important because it is so essential ...