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The first to cry down injustice : Western Jews and Japanese removal during WWII / Ellen M. Eisenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisenberg, Ellen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--West (U.S.)--Politics and government--20th century.
- Jews--West (U.S.)--Societies, etc.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
- Japanese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945--Japanese Americans.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Intergroup relations--West (U.S.)--Societies, etc.
- Intergroup relations.
- West (U.S.)--Ethnic relations.
- West (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although American Jews had already embraced the principle of fighting prejudice in all forms, western Jews often did not apply it to specific local issues involving Japanese Americans during World War II. In The First to Cry Down Injustice?, Eisenberg analyzes the range of Jewish responses_including silence, opposition to, and support for the policy_to the mass removal of Japanese Americans as the product of a distinctive western ethnic landscape.
- Contents:
- Western Jews, whiteness, and the Asian "other"
- A studious silence: Western Jewish responses to Japanese removal
- To be the first to cry down injustice? Western Jews and opposition to Nikkei policy
- Fighting fascism: the LAJCC and the case for removal.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-167) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-30363-3
- 1-282-49327-2
- 9786612493270
- 0-7391-3013-7
- OCLC:
- 250661129
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