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How could have the American journalism community helped Jewish journalists flee persecution by Nazi Germany? This is the question Professor Laurel Leff asks in “Rebuffing Refugee Journalists: The Profession’s Failure to Help Jews Persecuted by Nazi Germany,” an article in Journalism & Communication Monographs, 2015. Leff is the author of Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper, 2005. She is the Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies at Northeastern University.