Laurel Leff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurel Leff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurel |
| FAMILY NAME | Leff |
| SIGNATURE | LEFF L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader Daniel Greene and Edward Phillips
Championing Humanity, Overlooking Atrocity: Edward R. Murrow and the Holocaust
What distinguished Edward R. Murrow’s April 1945 concentration camp broadcast was the people of Buchenwald. While other journalists focused on the dead as “dumps of unburied corpses” and the living as “wretched remnants,” Murrow described the inmates as people who had lives before their internment. Murrow’s work a decade earlier with Jewish professors fired by the Nazi regime helped him sense humanity when others perceived nothing but carnage. Ye…
Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933–1945 Marc Saperstein
The High Holidays, 1943. In Chicago and Copenhagen, San Francisco and Nove Mesto, Detroit and Ra’anana, the Bronx and Brooklyn, rabbis prepared their sermons. They understood that during the previous two years three million European Jews had been murdered, and that millions more stood in imminent danger. What words of consolation, lamentation, or exhortation could they utter? Agony in the Pulpit provides answers. In an impressive feat of sleuthin…
Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945
Book Review| April 01 2019 Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945 Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945. By Lori Gemeiner Bihler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018. 218 pp. List of illustrations, list of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85 (cloth); $20.95 (paper). Laurel Leff Laurel Leff Northeastern University Laurel Leff is Associate Professor of Journalism and Ass…
History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust
Obituary: David S. Wyman
David S. Wyman, who died in March at the age of eight-nine, changed the way Americans perceived their role in the Holocaust—and not just American academics, American Jews, or American politicians. Through his meticulous scholarship and powerful argumentation, Wyman led Americans generally to consider their nation’s failure to help Europe’s Jews. In the decades immediately following World War II, Americans didn’t worry about their role as bystande…
Rebuffing Refugee Journalists: The Profession’s Failure to Help Jews Persecuted by Nazi Germany
When Nazi Germany forced Jewish scholars and professionals to flee Europe, many disciplines found homes for them in the United States. One did not. The journalism profession made little effort to help their European colleagues. The nation’s accredited journalism schools did not add a single displaced European scholar and rebuffed pleas to re-educate foreign journalists. If anything, practicing journalists were more hostile. This monograph seeks t…
Combating Prejudice and Protectionism in American Medicine: The Physicians Committee's Fight for Refugees from Nazism, 1939-1945
No lobby reacted with more hostility to Jewish refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe than did the medical profession, yet refugee physicians ultimately fared better than any other occupational group. The counter-campaign waged by a group of American doctors partly resolves this paradox. The National Committee for the Resettlement of Foreign Physicians helped immigrants pass licensing exams in the rapidly shrinking number of states that allowed them…
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the etho…
When the Facts Didn't Speak for Themselves: The Holocaust in the New York Times, 1939-1945
When the Facts Didn't Speak for Themselves: The Holocaust in the New York Times, 1939-1945
Conventional wisdom assumes that Americans did not know about the Holocaust while it was happening. However, over the last two decades, scholars have demonstrated not only that credible reports reached the Allied governments throughout the war about the persecution and ultimately the extermination of the Jews, but also that much of that information appeared in the Jewish press and in daily newspapers. My own research reveals that during the war a…
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When the Facts Didn't Speak for Themselves: The Holocaust in the New York Times, 1939-1945
When the Facts Didn't Speak for Themselves: The Holocaust in the New York Times, 1939-1945
Conventional wisdom assumes that Americans did not know about the Holocaust while it was happening. However, over the last two decades, scholars have demonstrated not only that credible reports reached the Allied governments throughout the war about the persecution and ultimately the extermination of the Jews, but also that much of that information appeared in the Jewish press and in daily newspapers. My own research reveals that during the war a…
Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America's Most Important Newspaper
An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the etho…
Combating Prejudice and Protectionism in American Medicine: The Physicians Committee's Fight for Refugees from Nazism, 1939-1945
No lobby reacted with more hostility to Jewish refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe than did the medical profession, yet refugee physicians ultimately fared better than any other occupational group. The counter-campaign waged by a group of American doctors partly resolves this paradox. The National Committee for the Resettlement of Foreign Physicians helped immigrants pass licensing exams in the rapidly shrinking number of states that allowed them…
Rebuffing Refugee Journalists: The Profession’s Failure to Help Jews Persecuted by Nazi Germany
When Nazi Germany forced Jewish scholars and professionals to flee Europe, many disciplines found homes for them in the United States. One did not. The journalism profession made little effort to help their European colleagues. The nation’s accredited journalism schools did not add a single displaced European scholar and rebuffed pleas to re-educate foreign journalists. If anything, practicing journalists were more hostile. This monograph seeks t…
Obituary: David S. Wyman
David S. Wyman, who died in March at the age of eight-nine, changed the way Americans perceived their role in the Holocaust—and not just American academics, American Jews, or American politicians. Through his meticulous scholarship and powerful argumentation, Wyman led Americans generally to consider their nation’s failure to help Europe’s Jews. In the decades immediately following World War II, Americans didn’t worry about their role as bystande…
Agony in the Pulpit: Jewish Preaching in Response to Nazi Persecution and Mass Murder 1933–1945 Marc Saperstein
The High Holidays, 1943. In Chicago and Copenhagen, San Francisco and Nove Mesto, Detroit and Ra’anana, the Bronx and Brooklyn, rabbis prepared their sermons. They understood that during the previous two years three million European Jews had been murdered, and that millions more stood in imminent danger. What words of consolation, lamentation, or exhortation could they utter? Agony in the Pulpit provides answers. In an impressive feat of sleuthin…
Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945
Book Review| April 01 2019 Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945 Cities of Refuge: German Jews in London and New York, 1935–1945. By Lori Gemeiner Bihler. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2018. 218 pp. List of illustrations, list of abbreviations, notes, bibliography, and index. $85 (cloth); $20.95 (paper). Laurel Leff Laurel Leff Northeastern University Laurel Leff is Associate Professor of Journalism and Ass…
History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust
Championing Humanity, Overlooking Atrocity: Edward R. Murrow and the Holocaust
What distinguished Edward R. Murrow’s April 1945 concentration camp broadcast was the people of Buchenwald. While other journalists focused on the dead as “dumps of unburied corpses” and the living as “wretched remnants,” Murrow described the inmates as people who had lives before their internment. Murrow’s work a decade earlier with Jewish professors fired by the Nazi regime helped him sense humanity when others perceived nothing but carnage. Ye…
Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader Daniel Greene and Edward Phillips
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