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The National Museum of American Jewish Military History
Lecture Series 2001-02 presents

U.S. Army Officers' Perceptions
of Jews as Soldiers, 1898-1948
presented by Dr. Joseph W. Bendersky

Dr. Joseph W. Bendersky is a Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in
History at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.   He is the
author of numerous publications and has taught German history and the
Holocaust for over twenty years.  His most recent book, The "Jewish Threat":
Anti-Semitic Politics of the U.S. Army (Basic Books, 2000), was a finalist
for the National Jewish Book Award.  It has received widespread attention
from the New York Review of Books to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
David Wyman referred to it a "path breaking study" and Leonard Dinnerstein
called it "One of the finest studies that I have read about pervasive
anti-Semitism in an American institution..."

His lecture, "U.S. Army Officers' Perceptions of Jews as Soldiers,
1898-1948", will examine the highly negative attitudes towards Jews as
soldiers that pervaded the U.S. Army Officer Corps in the first half of the
twentieth century.  It will show how the racial anti-Semitic worldview that
emerged in the Officer Corps before World War I affected officer views of
Jewish soldiers during and after that conflict.  This included perceptions
of Jews as physically, mentally, and morally incapable of being good
soldiers.  The performance of Jewish soldiers in World War II went a long
way toward eliminating many of these negative stereotypes.  However, some of
these old prejudices continued to affect the attitudes held by certain top
officers toward Jews up to the establishment of Israel.

National Museum American Jewish Military History

Sunday, December 2, 2001 @ 2:00 pm
in the Museum's Study Center

1811 R Street, NW between 18th and 19th St.
Metro:  Red Line, Dupont Circle station, Q Street exit

For book info, directions, or RSVP call (202) 265-6280 x 104

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