This book examines how American Protestants, Catholics and Jews responded to the persecution of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory in the 1930s.The essays focus on American religious responses to Kristallnacht and represent the first examination of multi-religious group responses to the beginnings of the Holocaust. INDICE: - Introduction: American Religious Groups and Kristallnacht; M.Mazzenga - Christian and Jewish Interfaith Efforts during the Holocaust: The Ecumenical Context; V.J.Barnett - 'The Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man': Mainline American Protestants and the Kristallnacht Pogrom; K.Jantzen - Kristallnacht in Context: Jewish War Veterans in America and Britain and the Crisis of German Jewry; M.Berkowitz - Toward an American Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Catholic Americanism and Kristallnacht; M.Mazzenga - American Catholics Respond to Kristallnacht: NCWC Refugee Policy and the Plight of Non-Aryans; P.Hayes - Kristallnacht: The American Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theological Response; G.Greenberg - Persecution, Prophecy, and the Fundamentalist Reconstructionof Germany, 1933-1940; M.Bowman
- ISBN: 978-0-230-61806-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 11/08/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés