American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht

by M. Mazzenga

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230618060
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	08/11/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	215
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

MARIA MAZZENGA has served as Education Archivist at the American Catholic History Research Centre, USA and University Archives since 2005. She has written several articles on American Catholicism and on the U.S. home front during the Second World War and is currently working on a book on American Catholic responses to the Holocaust.

Table of Contents

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 Reconstruction of Germany, 1933-1940; M.Bowman

Editorial Reviews

"This volume is one of the first in decades to explore the impact of religion on American responses to the Holocaust. The book's greatest strength lies in new evidence from U.S. religious periodicals and archives typically not consulted by Holocaust scholars; for example, the archives of the Catholic University of America, the Center for Migration Studies, Union Theological Seminary, and the Presbyterian Historical Archive. American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht demonstrates the promise that heretofore untouched primary source material generated by U.S. religious groups and institutions holds for scholarship on American responses to Nazism. For this, Dr. Mazzenga and the volume's contributors are to be congratulated." - Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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