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American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht

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  • © 2009

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  1. Maria Mazzenga

    1. American Catholic History Research Center, University Archives, USA

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This book examines how American Protestants, Catholics and Jews responded to the persecution of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territory in the 1930s. The essays focus on American religious responses to Kristallnacht and represent the first examination of multi-religious group responses to the beginnings of the Holocaust.

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction: American Religious Groups and Kristallnacht

    • Maria Mazzenga
    Pages 1-12

  3. Christian and Jewish Interfaith Efforts During the Holocaust: The Ecumenical Context

    • Victoria Barnett
    Pages 13-29

  4. “The Fatherhood of God and Brotherhood of Man”: Mainline American Protestants and the Kristallnacht Pogrom

    • Kyle Jantzen
    Pages 31-55

  5. Kristallnacht in Context: Jewish War Veterans in America And Britain and the Crisis of German Jewry

    • Michael Berkowitz
    Pages 57-84

  6. Toward an American Catholic Response to the Holocaust: Catholic Americanism and Kristallnacht

    • Maria Mazzenga
    Pages 85-110

  7. American Catholics Respond to Kristallnacht: Ncwc Refugee Policy and the Plight of Non-Aryans

    • Patrick J. Hayes
    Pages 111-144

  8. Kristallnacht: The American Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Theological Response

    • Gershon Greenberg
    Pages 145-181

  9. Persecution, Prophecy, and the Fundamentalist Reconstruction of Germany, 1933–1940

    • Matthew Bowman
    Pages 183-204

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 205-215
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"This volume is one of the first in decades to explore the impact of religion on American responses to the Holocaust. The book's greatest strength lies in new evidence from U.S. religious periodicals and archives typically not consulted by Holocaust scholars; for example, the archives of the Catholic University of America, the Center for Migration Studies, Union Theological Seminary, and the Presbyterian Historical Archive. American Religious Responses to Kristallnacht demonstrates the promise that heretofore untouched primary source material generated by U.S. religious groups and institutions holds for scholarship on American responses to Nazism. For this, Dr. Mazzenga and the volume's contributors are to be congratulated." - Suzanne Brown-Fleming, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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  • American Catholic History Research Center, University Archives, USA

    Maria Mazzenga

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MARIA  MAZZENGA has served as Education Archivist at the American Catholic History Research Centre, USA and University Archives since 2005. She has written several articles on American Catholicism and on the U.S. home front during the Second World War and is currently working on a book on American Catholic responses to the Holocaust.

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