The book, Saving the Jews: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Holocaust, by South Carolina divorce attorney Robert N. Rosen, was published by Thunder's Mouth Press earlier this year. Rosen has been invited to address the Roosevelt Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY, and the Carter Presidential Library, in Atlanta, as well as other institutions.
The scholars' petition, organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, criticizes Rosen for "impugning the patriotism of scholars, including Prof.
David S. Wyman, who have taken issue with the Roosevelt administration's response to the Holocaust ...As scholars who have written about the Holocaust, we protest Mr. Rosen's attempt to demean the motives of reputable historians who have documented important facts about how America responded to the Nazi genocide. Does your publishing house really mean to suggest that questioning the policies of a particular administration is grounds for branding a scholar 'anti-American'? Such name-calling and invective are deplorable, false, and have no place in serious discussion of the Roosevelt administration's response to one of the greatest moral crises of the Twentieth Century."
The signatories include Prof. Hubert G. Locke, Dean Emeritus at the University of Washington; Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch; Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Professor & Director at the University of Judaism's Ziering Institute on the Holocaust; Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council; Prof. Blanche Cook of the City University of New York, author of the acclaimed multi-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt; Prof. Israel W. Charny, editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide; Prof. Susannah Heschel of Dartmouth College; and Thane Rosenbaum, novelist and professor of human rights law at Fordham University.
The Wyman Institute simultaneously issued a 33-page report analyzing Saving the Jews. The report, titled Whitewashing FDR's Holocaust Record, found that Rosen's book severely misrepresents key historical facts. For example, the report states, Rosen misquotes historians Richard Breitman and Alan Kraut to make it seem as if they praised FDR's response to Kristallnacht, when in fact they were critical of FDR's response.
The full report - co-authored by Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael Medoff, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education at Hebrew Union College Dr. Racelle Weiman, and Bar Ilan University's Dr. Bat-Ami Zucker - may be found at www.WymanInstitute.org.
The scholars' petition, organized by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, criticizes Rosen for "impugning the patriotism of scholars, including Prof.
Prof. David S. Wyman
The signatories include Prof. Hubert G. Locke, Dean Emeritus at the University of Washington; Dr. Gregory H. Stanton, president of Genocide Watch; Dr. Michael Berenbaum, Professor & Director at the University of Judaism's Ziering Institute on the Holocaust; Rabbi Dr. Irving (Yitz) Greenberg, former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council; Prof. Blanche Cook of the City University of New York, author of the acclaimed multi-volume biography of Eleanor Roosevelt; Prof. Israel W. Charny, editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide; Prof. Susannah Heschel of Dartmouth College; and Thane Rosenbaum, novelist and professor of human rights law at Fordham University.
The Wyman Institute simultaneously issued a 33-page report analyzing Saving the Jews. The report, titled Whitewashing FDR's Holocaust Record, found that Rosen's book severely misrepresents key historical facts. For example, the report states, Rosen misquotes historians Richard Breitman and Alan Kraut to make it seem as if they praised FDR's response to Kristallnacht, when in fact they were critical of FDR's response.
The full report - co-authored by Wyman Institute director Dr. Rafael Medoff, Director of the Center for Holocaust and Humanity Education at Hebrew Union College Dr. Racelle Weiman, and Bar Ilan University's Dr. Bat-Ami Zucker - may be found at www.WymanInstitute.org.