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American historian Joseph Telushkin notes that according to public opinion polls, "the majority of Americans were against the access of a significant number of Jewish refugees to the country. " The attitude in the United States to the problem of Jewish refugees before entering the war was characterized by Chaim Weizmann in his book "Trials and ...
The Holocaust saw increased awareness in the 1970s that instilled its prominence in the collective memory of the American people continuing to the present day. The United States has been criticized for taking insufficient action in response to the Jewish refugee crisis in the 1930s and the Holocaust during World War II.
Between 1933 and 1941, the Chinese city of Shanghai under Japanese occupation, accepted unconditionally over 18,000 Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust in Europe, a number greater than those taken in by Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and British India combined during World War II.
Initially, American Jews resisted Israeli efforts. Following Mikhail Gorbachev's decision in the late 1980s to allow free emigration for Soviet Jews, the American Jewish community agreed to a quota on Soviet Jewish refugees in the U.S., which resulted in most Soviet Jewish émigrés settling in Israel. [134]
Wyman documents, for example, how Roosevelt repeatedly refused asylum to Jewish refugees [6] and failed to order the bombing of railway lines leading to Auschwitz. [7] At the same time, most Jewish leaders in America and in Palestine did little to pressure these governments to change their policy. [8]
American Jewry and the Holocaust: The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1939-1945. Jerusalem: The Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, 1981. ISBN 978-0-814-31672-6 OCLC 6916401; Shachtman, Tom. I Seek My Brethren Ralph Goldman and "The Joint": The Work of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Yet, Jewish refugees and immigrants from Arab lands, the Sephardi-Mizrahi, are off the radar. They make up about 56,000 of the 535,000 Jews living in Southeast Florida. In Miami-Dade, 17% of the ...
The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust (U of Nebraska Press, 2021). Medoff, Rafael. America and the Holocaust: A Documentary History (University of Nebraska Press, 2022) online; Mendelsohn, John, ed. Jewish Emigration from 1933 to the Evian Conference of 1938 (Taylor & Francis, 1982).