Citation

Banin J. Holocaust Stud. 2018; 24(1): 45-65.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Informa - Taylor and Francis)

DOI

10.1080/17504902.2017.1355162

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This article assesses the response of the liberal weekly journal, the Nation, to the Holocaust. It explores how and why the magazine, unlike almost all other American newspapers, did not underplay the crisis, but reported the tragedy sympathetically and criticized their own government's inaction. The existing historiography has been divided, often passionately so, on whether the US should be viewed as a 'bystander' to events. This study replaces policy-makers as the central focus and assesses the extent, and limits, of the American engagement with the existential challenge to European Jewry, as seen through the eyes of the Nation.

Language: en

Keywords

Holocaust; intervention; Nation; United States