New essay: The Myth of WWII Saviorism - Antisemitism and National Memory in America
Before WWII, U.S. policy treated Jews as racial outsiders. After 1945, that same nation recast itself as their rescuer.
I trace how this moral inversion shaped American memory and how “saving the Jews” became a story about saving America.
https://eliezeraryeh.substack.com/p/the-american-mirror-jews-race-and