FDR and the Jews

Richard Breitman

Allan J. Lichtman

“Breitman and Lichtman pursue several telling currents in FDR’s record, namely the president’s ability to keep the private separate from the public, his reliance on Jewish leaders, and his evolving enlightenment toward Jewish issues as he neared the end of his life.”—Kirkus Reviews

“A penetrating analysis of the historical record, uncovering new sources and answering haunting questions that still linger after 75 years. A must read!”—Richard Ben-Veniste, Senior Partner, Mayer Brown LLP, and Commissioner, 9/11 Commission

“The FDR who emerges here is concerned with the fate of European Jewry, but also exquisitely sensitive to the demands of the situation: in short, he is the ultimately political man, and his approach shifts with each turn of major events. This comprehensive work will become the definitive word on the subject.”—Noah Feldman, author of Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices

“This splendid book should banish forever the notion that Franklin Roosevelt was a blinkered anti-Semite who made little effort to stop the Holocaust. With dazzling research and astute judgments, Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman portray FDR as a cunning politician who, in the dreadful context of his times, did more to aid Jews than any other leader in the United States or abroad.”—Michael Kazin, author of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation

“Anyone who wishes to be part of the conversation about FDR’s response to the Holocaust would do well to read Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman’s FDR and the Jews. In a quiet and sober fashion it reexamines what is already known and lays out new and previously unknown information.”—Deborah E. Lipstadt, author of The Eichmann Trial