America First
Language: English
Published by Brenn Books, 2023
- Hardcover
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He helped many. He even saved the Gerrer Rebbe's life. But he never called on President Roosevelt to do more to save European Jewry from the Nazis.Sol Bloom, a colorful character who introduced the Ferris Wheel to the world, chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives during World War II. He steered both Cash-and-Carry and Lend-Lease through Congress. Rescue activists, however, didn't always find a friend in him. Why? Bloom's own words in a 1939 letter perhaps answer this question best: "My duty as I see it comes first as an American. All else whatever it may be is secondary."To read about Bloom's life is to grapple with the question of the proper role of minorities in America as well as the question that haunts so many 75 years after the Holocaust: Should America have done more.
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- Title
- America First
- Author
- Elliot Resnick
- Publisher
- Brenn Books
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0988676885
- ISBN 13
- 9780988676886
— Edward Shapiro, PhD, professor emeritus of history, Seton Hall University
"Elliot Resnick’s consideration of Sol Bloom in America First has forced me to reexamine my opinion of the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee…. I had previously all-too-easily accepted the cliché’s portrayal that he was too timid and meek, either afraid or unwilling to advance Jewish interests at the most important time in our people’s history. Resnick has proven these opinions wrong and Bloom emerges as a far more complex character, more deeply as a caring proud Jew."
— Michael Berenbaum, PhD, renowned historian, project director
overseeing the creation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
He helped thousands. He even saved the Gerrer Rebbe's life. But he never berated President Roosevelt for failing to rescue more European Jews from the Nazi inferno.
Sol Bloom – a colorful character who introduced the Ferris Wheel to the world in 1893 – chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives during World War II and valiantly steered both Cash-and-Carry and Lend-Lease through Congress. Yet, he disappointed Jewish rescue activists. For while Bloom was a proud Jew, as a high-ranking congressman he felt obligated to put the interests of his country – as he understood them – above all else. And that meant supporting Roosevelt as he led America against the greatest threat mankind has perhaps ever known.
Bloom's life is a unique prism through which to examine the question that continues to haunt so many: Why didn't America do more to save Jews during the Holocaust?
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