The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945

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New Press, 2007 - History - 458 pages

The Abandonment of the Jews received enormous critical and commercial attention when it was first released in 1984, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for five weeks as well as on its Best Books of the Year list. A selection of the History Book Club and the Jewish Book Club, it has sold over 100,000 copies in its various editions.

In this landmark work, David S. Wyman argues that a substantial commitment to rescue European Jews on the part of the United States almost certainly could have saved several hundred thousand of the Nazis' victims. Widely considered to be the definitive book on the subject, The Abandonment of the Jews won the National Jewish Book Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Award, the Present Tense Literary Award, the Stuart Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and the Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration History Society, and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

This edition includes a new preface by the author discussing the ongoing controversy aroused by the book since its original publication.


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Contents

Europe and America
3
A PLAN TO EXTERMINATE ALL JEWS
17
The Worst Is Confirmed
42
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

David Sword Wyman was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts on March 6, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Boston University in 1951, a master's degree in education from Plymouth State College in New Hampshire in 1961, and a doctorate in history at Harvard University in 1966. He taught history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1966 until his retirement in 1991. He wrote several books including Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis 1938-1941 and The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945. In 2013, scholars and others inspired by his book founded the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington, D. C. Wyman died on March 14, 2018 at the age of 89.

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