| Description |
1 online resource (363 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Foundations -- Precedence in Nazi Persecution -- Creating the Jewish Labor Committee -- Anchored in the Jewish Labor Movement -- Political Origins in the Bund -- Baruch Charney Vladeck and the Bundist Generation -- Socialists, Not Communists -- Jews but Not Zionists -- The JLC, the AFL, and the CIO -- Anti-Semitism and U.S. Immigration Restrictions -- Overcoming Quotas -- 2. Constructing International Links: 1933-1937 -- Weakness of International Labor, American Isolationism |
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A First German Network of Information and Solidarity -- Walter Citrine in the United States -- An Italian Branch -- Helping the Spanish Republicans -- 3. Politics of Anti-Nazism, 1935-1939 -- Boycott of German Goods -- The Counter-Olympics of 1936 -- A New York Labor Party -- Anti-Nazi Resistance: Links with Neu Beginnen -- Inferno Begins in Poland -- 4. Trajectories of Exile, Rescue Operations -- An Opening in Washington -- Establishing Lists -- Frank Bohn and Varian Fry in Marseille -- Across Siberia and Japan: "One Miracle after Another" -- The Socialist International in New York? |
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Assessing the Numbers -- Shared Honors -- Limits of Political Emigration -- Illustrations -- 5. With the French Resistance -- Paul Vignaux: A Messenger from French Labor -- The Committee for Socialist Action and France Libre -- Voice of the Unconquered -- Supporting Underground Labor Movements -- The AFL and the CIO Come into Play -- The Free French -- The OSS behind the Scenes -- Saving the Cercle Amical-Arbeter Ring -- Reconstructing Jewish Life -- Coda: Léon Blum: "Here I Feel at Home" -- 6. Fire and Ashes in Poland -- The German-Soviet Pact -- Humanitarian Aid for the Jews in Russia |
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The Erlich and Alter Affair -- Early Knowledge of the Unthinkable -- Of Money and Weapons -- Publish, Inform, Act -- "When the Long Night Is Over" -- The JLC and Palestine -- Afterword: Memory and Silence -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
How American labor leaders came to the rescue of political and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Emanuel, Susan
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| ISBN |
9780814346211 |
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0814346219 |
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