The American Jewish response to the holocaust--a reconsideration.(Shoah)

It has been six and one half decades since the Holocaust. Ever since that time, critics have tried to come to terms with this most tragic era in Jewish history. They ask an agonizing question: Why didn't the American Jewish community do more to save Europe's Jews? This implies that too little was done, and that something, more, in fact, could have been done? Some say that if only Rabbi Stephen Wise had listened to Peter Bergson, (also known as Hillel Kook, the Palestine-born nephew of the eminent rabbi Abraham Hillel Kook), substantially more Jews could have been saved. Bergson ca