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Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews
Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys
behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration?s
fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff
delves into difficult truths: With FDR?s consent, the
administration deliberately suppressed European
immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law.?His
administration also refused to admit Jewish refugees
to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed proposals to use
empty Liberty ships returning from Europe to carry
refugees, and rejected pleas to drop bombs on the
railways leading to Auschwitz, even while American
planes were bombing targets only a few miles
away?actions that would not have conflicted with the
larger goal of winning the war. What motivated FDR?
Medoff explores the sensitive question of the
president?s private sentiments toward Jews.
Unmasking strong parallels between Roosevelt?s
statements regarding Jews and Asians, he connects
the administration?s policies of excluding

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The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi
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BOOKS SYNOPSIS
Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should
Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the
Franklin D. Roosevelt administration?s fateful policies
during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult
truths: With FDR?s consent, the administration
deliberately suppressed European immigration far below
the limits set by U.S. law.?His administration also refused
to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands,
dismissed proposals to use empty Liberty ships returning
from Europe to carry refugees, and rejected pleas to drop
bombs on the railways leading to Auschwitz, even while
American planes were bombing targets only a few miles
away?actions that would not have conflicted with the
larger goal of winning the war. What motivated FDR?
Medoff explores the sensitive question of the president?s
private sentiments toward Jews. Unmasking strong
parallels between Roosevelt?s statements regarding Jews
and Asians, he connects the administration?s policies of
excluding