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This text crisply synthesizes much of the secondary literature on the Holocaust's impact in the US, presenting the subject within the larger context of anti-Semitism and racial hatred in American life ... This volume provides students with an entree to a fraught and all-too-timely subject. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. * CHOICE * The United States and the Nazi Holocaust brings together two closely related topics that are often treated separately: Americans' response to the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews and Americans' confrontation with the Holocaust in the aftermath of the event. Trachtenberg challenges long-held misconceptions about this history in very engaging ways. * Daniel Greene, Professor of Modern History, Northwestern University, USA * This book shows the turbid and ambivalent context in which the US negotiated its response to the persecution of Jews in Europe. Barry Trachtenberg offers a sober, informed, engaged, and smart analysis. Political in the best sense of the word, The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is a book for a thinking reader. * Anna Hajkova, Professor of Modern European Continental History, University of Warwick, UK *

The United States and the Nazi Holocaust brings together two closely related topics that are often treated separately: Americans' response to the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews and Americans' confrontation with the Holocaust in the aftermath of the event. Trachtenberg challenges long-held misconceptions about this history in very engaging ways. * Daniel Greene, Professor of Modern History, Northwestern University, USA *

This text crisply synthesizes much of the secondary literature on the Holocaust's impact in the US, presenting the subject within the larger context of anti-Semitism and racial hatred in American life … This volume provides students with an entrée to a fraught and all-too-timely subject. Summing Up: Recommended. All readers. * CHOICE * The United States and the Nazi Holocaust brings together two closely related topics that are often treated separately: Americans’ response to the Nazi persecution of Europe’s Jews and Americans’ confrontation with the Holocaust in the aftermath of the event. Trachtenberg challenges long-held misconceptions about this history in very engaging ways. * Daniel Greene, Professor of Modern History, Northwestern University, USA * This book shows the turbid and ambivalent context in which the US negotiated its response to the persecution of Jews in Europe. Barry Trachtenberg offers a sober, informed, engaged, and smart analysis. Political in the best sense of the word, The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is a book for a thinking reader. * Anna Hájková, Professor of Modern European Continental History, University of Warwick, UK *

The United States and the Nazi Holocaust brings together two closely related topics that are often treated separately: Americans' response to the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews and Americans' confrontation with the Holocaust in the aftermath of the event. Trachtenberg challenges long-held misconceptions about this history in very engaging ways. * Daniel Greene, Professor of Modern History, Northwestern University, USA * This book shows the turbid and ambivalent context in which the US negotiated its response to the persecution of Jews in Europe. This is a story how racism begets racism, concentration camps, and violence, which were all too easily forgotten. Barry Trachtenberg offers a sober, informed, engaged, and smart analysis. Political in the best sense of the word, The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is a book for a thinking reader. * Anna Hajkova, Professor of Modern European Continental History, University of Warwick, UK *

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Barry Trachtenberg is Michael H. and Deborah K. Rubin Presidential Chair of Jewish History at Wake Forest University, USA. He is the author of The Revolutionary Roots of Modern Yiddish, 1903-1917 (2008).

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