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Article: Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik and American Jewry's response to the Holocaust.
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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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 the successful effort by the Bergson group to help bring about a belated U.S. response to the Holocaust.
Today it is widely recognized that many American Jewish leaders could have done considerably more on behalf of Europe's Jews. However, when I was working on my Ph.D. dissertation on this topic in the mid-1970's (later published as Were We Our Brothel's' Keepers? The Public ...