Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1 The Siren Song of Emancipation 1
PART ONE: The Great Depression and Anti-Semitism
2 Europe in Crisis
33
3 A French Predicament
64
4 Britain Wrestles with the Refugee Problem
90
5 Seeking Asylum in the New World: The United States
120
6 Seeking Asylum in the New World: Canada or Latin America?
149
PART TWO: The Unending American Debate
7 In Search of a Haven
185
8 The War of Words
210
9 A Jewish Hush-Hush Strategy
236
10 Scylla, Charybdis, and Washington, D.C.
261
PART THREE: The Destruction of European Jewery
11 The Start of a Genocide
289
12 Militant Jews, Circumspect Jews, and Doomed Jews
322
13 A Statecraft of Carefully Calibrated Compassion
351
14 Should More Have Been Done to Stop the Holocaust?
389
PART FOUR: From Victimhood to Martyrdom
15 The Twilight of European Jewry
421
16 The Emergence of the Holocaust
452
Notes 479
Bibliography 493
Index 499