The World Jewish Congress during the holocaust : between activism and restraint /
Segev, Zohar,
The World Jewish Congress during the holocaust : between activism and restraint / Zohar Segev. - 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) : illustrations, portraits - New perspectives on modern Jewish history, volume 7 2192-9645 ; . - New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
World Jewish Congress Activity in the United States during World War -- Stephen Wise, Nahum Goldmann, and the Question of Palestine in 1940s America -- The World Jewish Congress's Rescue Effort -- Diaspora Nationalism, The World Jewish Congress, American Jewry, and the Post-War Rehabilitation of Europe's Jews -- Summary -- Afterword.
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society.
German.
9783110320268 3110320266 3110376954 9783110376951
000027 Knowledge Unlatched
2015411653
World Jewish Congress--History.
World Jewish Congress.
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish studies.
Religious groups: social and cultural aspects.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--General.
HISTORY--General.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish Culture and History Contemporary History, Politics
Electronic books.
History.
D804.3 / .S44 2014eb
909.04924
The World Jewish Congress during the holocaust : between activism and restraint / Zohar Segev. - 1 online resource (vii, 240 pages) : illustrations, portraits - New perspectives on modern Jewish history, volume 7 2192-9645 ; . - New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; v. 7. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.
World Jewish Congress Activity in the United States during World War -- Stephen Wise, Nahum Goldmann, and the Question of Palestine in 1940s America -- The World Jewish Congress's Rescue Effort -- Diaspora Nationalism, The World Jewish Congress, American Jewry, and the Post-War Rehabilitation of Europe's Jews -- Summary -- Afterword.
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society.
German.
9783110320268 3110320266 3110376954 9783110376951
000027 Knowledge Unlatched
2015411653
World Jewish Congress--History.
World Jewish Congress.
1939-1945
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Jewish studies.
Religious groups: social and cultural aspects.
Social groups.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--General.
HISTORY--General.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Jewish Culture and History Contemporary History, Politics
Electronic books.
History.
D804.3 / .S44 2014eb
909.04924