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349:, Wyman writes "Today I remain strongly pro-Zionist and I am a resolute supporter of the state of Israel. My commitment to Zionism and to Israel has been confirmed and increased by years of study of the Holocaust." He goes to say "I look upon Israel as the most important line of defense against anti-Semitism in the world." He concludes this particular paragraph with a statement that manages to capture Wyman's pro-Zionist views in just a single sentence: "Had there been a Jewish state in the 1933 to 1945 era, it would be much less painful today for all of us to confront the history of European Jewry during World War II." 248: 344:
Although Wyman wrote his books "not as an insider" (i.e., a non-Jew writing about Jewish history), he has still "advocated a Jewish state for a long time," and believes he would "have backed the Zionist movement during the World War II era" if he had been old enough to be involved in political
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From 1966 until his retirement in 1991, Wyman taught history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he twice chaired the Judaic studies program. He held honorary doctoral degrees from
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was the correct one. If American Jews had taken a more forceful approach, government policy could have been changed.
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in the Holocaust category for The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945
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This article is about the historian. For the American sound engineer, see
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affairs (he would have been between 11 and 16 at the time). In his book,
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as having stood for many years as "one of the most important books" on
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during the Nazi era was to be faulted, and that the approach of the
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945
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The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945
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A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America, and the Holocaust
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In his later work, Wyman contended that the attitude of
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The Magazine of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Paper Walls: America and the Refugee Crisis, 1938-1941
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Boston University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
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David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies
David Wyman (sound engineer)
Dave Wyman

Weymouth, Massachusetts
Harvard University
Boston University College of Arts and Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Weymouth, Massachusetts
A.B.
Boston University
Ph.D.
Harvard University
Hebrew Union College
Yeshiva University
Deborah Lipstadt
American immigration
Nazi
antisemitism
nativistic nationalism
American Jews
Bergson Group

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