Not Free to Desist; A History of the American Jewish Committee, 1906-1966
Philadelphia, Pa. The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1972. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 652, [2] pages. Occasional footnotes. Notes. Index. Creasing and small chips to dust jacket. Includes Preface, Introduction by Salo W. Baron, Notes, and Index. Topics covered include Organization Was in the Air; Patricians at Work; In Defense of he Immigrant; The Abrogatin Campaign; Wartime Alliances; "The Greatest Charter of Liberities"; America Loses Confidence; The Nazi Fury; Bigotry and Defense, American style; The Years of the Holocaust; To Guard the Menmant; The State of Israel...Is Here to Stay; Between Left and Right; "You Know the Heart of a Stranger"; Integration and Identity; Separation of Church and State; The Teachings of Religion; To Light a Candle; Behind the Iron Curtain; Communities in Transition; Missionary Diplomacy; and Prologue to the Next Sixty. A prolific author and noted educator and academic, Naomi W. Cohen has achieved prominence as a historian of the United States and Jewish Americans. Naomi Cohen earned a Ph.D. in 1955 from Columbia University. She became a full professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York in 1973. Cohen’s research focused on twentieth-century American history and American Jewish history. Her publications include: Not Free to Desist: The American Jewish Committee, 1906–1966, American Jews and the Zionist Idea, and The Americanization of Zionism, 1897-1948. Salo Wittmayer Baron (May 26, 1895 – November 25, 1989) was a Polish-born American historian, described as "the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century". Baron taught at Columbia University from 1930 until 1963. More