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The First to Cry Down Injustice?

The First to Cry Down Injustice?

Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII

by Ellen M. Eisenberg
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/10/2008

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The First to Cry Down Injustice explores the range of responses from Jews in the Pacific West to the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. While it is often assumed that American Jews-because of a commitment to fighting prejudice-would have taken a position against this discriminatory policy, the treatment of Japanese Americans was largely ignored by national Jewish groups and liberal groups. For those on the West Coast, however, proximity to the evacuation made it difficult to ignore. Conflicting impulses on the issue-the desire to speak out against discrimination on the one hand, but to support a critical wartime policy on the other-led most western Jewish organizations and community newspapers to remain tensely silent. Some Jewish leaders did speak out against the policy because of personal relationships with Japanese Americans and political convictions. Yet a leading California Jewish organization made a significant contribution to propaganda in favor of mass removal. Eisenberg places these varied responses into the larger context of the western ethnic landscape and argues that they were linked to, and help to illuminate, the identity of western Jews both as westerners and as Jews.
ISBN:
9780739113820
9780739113820
Category:
Jewish studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-10-2008
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lexington Books
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
204
Dimensions (mm):
232x154x16mm
Weight:
0.31kg

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