When did we start this revision to history. FDR won over 80% of the Jewish vote in his run for the presidency. All 4 times. Hitler tried to denounce him by portraying FDR as Jewish (much like Southern leaders tried portraying Lincoln as black).
After Pearl Harbor he doesn't bee line it for Japan but jumps to Europe to stop Hitler from overrunning Britian and Palestine, two heavily Jewish populated area's first. He put thousands of Jewish leaders in government. Helped NY's first Jewish governor win. NY's first jewish senator win. Illinois first Jewish Governor Win...
People try this revisionist history BS that he didn't let Jews in the country. Nearly a quarter of all German Jews found refuge in the US under FDR (more than any other country).
And appointed the second Jewish man to be Supreme Court Justice.
Felix Frankfurter
Henry Morgenthau was hardly FDR’s only Jewish friend and close associate. He relied on the advice and support of Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter,Samuel Rosenman, David Lilienthal, Barnard Baruch, Nathan Straus, Herbert Lehman, Benjamin Cohen and David Dubinsky;the list could go on.
As Howard Sachar writes in “A History of the Jews in America,” “Four or five thousand Jews operated at various echelons of government during the 1930s,” a complete change from the past. Roosevelt encouraged the recruitment of Jewish talent, and he was often vilified for it. I remember his being called “Roosenfelt” by the true anti-Semites of his time. No wonder Jews supported him overwhelmingly at the polls.