We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962

We Remember with Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence after the Holocaust, 1945-1962. By Hasia R. Diner. (New York: New York Llniversiry Press, 2009. xiv, 527 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8147-1993-0.)

This massively researched book is intended as an answer to the charge of American Jewish indifference to the survivors of the Holocaust, an accusation that followed hard upon the indictment of American Jewry for its ostensible uncaring witness to the fate of its European brethren during the Holocaust. We Remember with Reverence and Love completes the process of putting those false charges to rest while telling us a great deal about the postwar experience of American Jewry.

This research should convince even the most recalcitrant that American Jewry did care far beyond the mundane purposes to which some...