Overview
- Series
- American encounters/global interactions
American encounters/global interactions. - Format
- Book
- Published
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009
- Locale
- Dominican Republic
Sosúa
Sosúa (Dominican Republic)
United States - Contents
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"Our ethnic problem"
Think big
Jewish farmers
Converging interests
"The eyes of the world are on the Dominican Republic"
One good turn
Lives in the balance
Playing god
Growing pains
First impressions
Flawed vision
Containment
Trial and error
Middle age
The man who saved Sosua
A "splendid president"
Golden years
"The beginning of the end"
Ravages of aging. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-435) and index.
"Our ethnic problem" -- Think big -- Jewish farmers -- Converging interests -- "The eyes of the world are on the Dominican Republic" -- One good turn -- Lives in the balance -- Playing god -- Growing pains -- First impressions -- Flawed vision -- Containment -- Trial and error -- Middle age -- The man who saved Sosua -- A "splendid president" -- Golden years -- "The beginning of the end" -- Ravages of aging.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- External Link
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Electronic version(s) available. Hosted by ProQuest
- ISBN
- 9780822343899
0822343894
9780822344070
0822344076 - Additional Form
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Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
- Physical Description
- xxxi, 447 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Jews--Dominican Republic--Sosúa--History. Jews--Colonization--Dominican Republic--Sosúa. Jewish refugees--Dominican Republic--Sosúa. Sosúa (Dominican Republic)--Ethnic relations. United States--Foreign relations--Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic--Foreign relations--United States. Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas,--1891-1961. Roosevelt, Franklin D.--(Franklin Delano),--1882-1945. Dominican Republic Settlement Association, Inc.
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