Posts Tagged: Henry Morgenthau
A Choice for Each of Us: Purim, FDR, and Henry Morgenthau’s ‘Esther’ Moment
On the holiday of Purim, Jews worldwide celebrate the salvation of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian empire. In the face of Haman’s imminent genocidal...
Document Sheds New Light on Jewish Vote in 1944 Race
The conventional assumption about the 1944 presidential election is that since American Jewry was firmly in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's pocket, the Jewish vote was...
Ahead of Her Time, With Passion
Ruth Gruber is a story teller, a woman of images and an escapee from Brooklyn. Study was her first passport - at fifteen, to New...
