Item Detail
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32446
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English
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Senator Elbert D. Thomas and the Fate of European Jewry
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Fall 2021
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89
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Illinois
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University of Illinois Press
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"This article thus begins to fill the scholarly gap on [Senator Elder B.] Thomas and the Holocaust : examining his 1934 travel to Germany; his association with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, the president of the American Jewish Congress (AJC) and cofounder of the World Jewish Congress (WJC); his interaction with groups such as Ambijan, the Jewish People’s Committee, and the New Zionist Organization of America...I ask, in particular, why Thomas—a New Dealer and Roosevelt loyalist—sided with many of FDR’s opponents in advocating the rescue of European Jewry, and why Thomas chose to align himself with an ideologically diverse group of Jewish organizations." [Author]