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

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New paperback edition of a landmark work that remains the definitive book on America's response to the Holocaust. In addition to a new cover design and Elie Wiesel's original foreword to the 1984 edition - and his 1998 afterword - this edition includes a new preface by the author discussing recent scholarship on the American response to the Holocaust.

David S. Wyman is the chairman of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and the Josiah DuBois Professor of History, emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is the author of The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 (The New Press) and Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941; the co-author, with Rafael Medoff, of A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust (The New Press); and the editor of the thirteen-volume America and the Holocaust and The World Reacts to the Holocaust. He holds honorary doctorates from Hebrew Union College and Yeshiva University.

"A monumental volume: sweeping in its scope, stunning in its insight, and enduring in its importance. . . . A damning indictment." -The Wall Street Journal "Never before has the evidence been marshaled so painstakingly, with such meticulous scholarship and to such effect." -The Washington Post Book World "We will not see a better book on this subject in our lifetime." -Leonard Dinnerstein, The Journal of American History