The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust : between activism and restraint / / Zohar Segev
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| Autore: |
Segev Zohar
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| Titolo: |
The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust : between activism and restraint / / Zohar Segev
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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 940.53/18 |
| Soggetto topico: | Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
| World War, 1939-1945 - Jews - Rescue | |
| Jews - Political activity - United States | |
| Zionism - History - 20th century | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Holocaust |
| Jewish Organizations | |
| World Jewish Congress | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust |
| ISBN: | 3-11-037695-4 |
| 3-11-032002-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996308833703316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Serie:
New perspectives on modern Jewish history ; ; v 7.