How to explain the ‘timid’ reaction of American Jewish leaders to Kristallnacht?

Click Here to Read: How to explain the ‘timid’ reaction of American Jewish leaders to Kristallnacht?: Amid the worst pogrom to take place in Germany since the Middle Ages, most US Jewish communal leaders told their constituents to keep quiet By Matt Lebovic on the Times of Israel website on November 10, 2018.

Synagogue in Hanover, Germany, set ablaze during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938 (public domain).

The Influence of Anti-Semitism on United States Immigration Policy With respect to German Jews During 1933-1939

Click Here to Read: The Influence of Anti-Semitism on United States Immigration Policy With respect to German Jews During 1933-1939 by Barbara L. Bailin 2011 Master’s Theses City College of New York.

Jewish refugees look out through portholes of a ship while docked in the port of Haifa. Date: Circa 1950 – 1959. See cataloguing notes on this image at the Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It is not the MS St. Louis

The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz

Click Here to Read: The Trial and Prosecuting Evil: The Extraordinary World of Ben Ferencz—An early Stalinist frame-up on film and the Nuremberg tribunal against the Nazis By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site on October 16, 2018.

Benjamin Ferencz – Chief Prosecutor in 1947 Einsatzgruppen Trial – In Courtroom 600 Where Nuremberg Trials Were Held – Palace of Justice – Nuremberg-Nurnberg – Germany. Photo: Adam Jones, Ph.D..  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.