The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust

by Rafael Medoff

Book Overview

Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0827614705
• ISBN13: 9780827614703
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great read

Hits home the true story of a often misreported, tragedy.

Brilliant and heartbreaking. Should be required reading for living.

This is a brave and brilliant work of first rate scholarship. It should be read and studied. It should inform us in our politics and in our life choices. It should inform our kindness.