The response of America's churches and other Christian religious institutions to the persecution of European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s was generally weak. Most American Christian leaders strongly condemned the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, but few advocated practical steps to help the Jews....
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In the United States during the Holocaust, most Episcopal leaders, like most leaders of other church denominations, refrained from speaking out about the Jews' plight. But there were important exceptions. Two Episcopal schools, the General Theological Seminary (New York) and the Berkeley Divinity...
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Statements made by William Temple (1881-1944), the Archbishop of Canterbury, in support of rescuing Jewish refugees played a role in the debate in the United States over rescue policy. In a series of public speeches, articles, and letters to the British press during 1942-1943, Temple expressed both...
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