The United States during the 1930s, as Nazism came to power in Germany and spread to Central Europe, itself was the scene of heightened action and talk against “the Jews.” Who were the Americans who joined in this chorus, some of which extolled Hitler and what motivated them? Did they actually represent a real threat? This talk explores 1930s America and the ways some Americans pinned the blame for their unease and distress on Jews, those at home and those abroad.

Dr. Hasia Diner is the Paul and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University. She is the author of several books, including most recently: Julius Rosenwald: Repair the World, Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migrations to the New World and the Peddlers Who Forged the Way (finalist for the 2015 National Jewish Book Award), and We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962 (winner of the 2009 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies).

This program is cosponsored by Drew University’s Center for Holocaust/Genocide Study.  

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ONLINE PROGRAM
Thursday, October 15, 2020, 7 PM eastern