Nazism The Jews And American Zionism 1933 1948

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814344033

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Nazism, The Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948 by Aaron Berman Pdf

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry.In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost. Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. The American Zionist response to Nazism also shaped he political turmoil in the Middle East which followed Israel’s creation. Concerned primarily with providing a home for Jewish refugees and fearing British betrayal, Zionists could not understand Arab protests in defense of their own national interests. Instead they responded to the Arab revolt with armed force and sought to insure their own claim to Palestine, Zionists came to link he Arabs with the Nazi and British forces that were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. In the thinking of American Zionists, the Arabs were steadily transformed from a people with whom an accommodation would have to be made into a mortal enemy to be defeated. Aaron Berman does not apologize for American Jews, but rather tries to understand the constraints within which they operated and what opportunities-if any-they had to respond to Hitler. In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman’s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1194903017

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Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1988 by Aaron Berman Pdf

Author : Heidemarie Wawrzyn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110306521

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Nazis in the Holy Land 1933-1948 by Heidemarie Wawrzyn Pdf

Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting „Heil Hitler!“ and Swastika flags were hoisted at the German consulates in Mandatory Palestine. It was in November 1931 when a non-Jewish German made the initial contact with Nazi officials in Germany that led to the establishment of a miniature Third Reich with local NS groups, Hitler Youth program, and associations for women, teachers, and others in Palestine. Approximately 33% of all Palestine-Germans (Palästina-Deutsche) participated in the NS movement. Until today no extensive research written in English has been done on this bizarre „footnote“ in history. While previous publications in German mainly concentrated on the members of the Temple Society, this work includes Protestant and Catholic Germans as well. It focuses on the relationship of Palästina-Deutsche with local Arabs and Jews. It covers the period of 1933 to 1948 as well as the years between the establishing of the State of Israel and the departure of the last group of Germans in 1950. At the end of the book, the reader will find a list with more than seven hundred names of those who joined the NS groups.

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
ISBN : 0814322328

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Nazism, the Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1988 by Aaron Berman Pdf

An investigation of the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry. The demand for Jewish statehood politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. Berman tries to understand the constraints within which American Jews operated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Edwin Black
Publisher : Dialog Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780914153931

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The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black Pdf

The Transfer Agreement is Edwin Black's compelling, award-winning story of a negotiated arrangement in 1933 between Zionist organizations and the Nazis to transfer some 50,000 Jews, and $100 million of their assets, to Jewish Palestine in exchange for stopping the worldwide Jewish-led boycott threatening to topple the Hitler regime in its first year. 25th Anniversary Edition.

Author : Aaron Berman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 081432231X

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Nazism, the Jews, and American Zionism, 1933-1948 by Aaron Berman Pdf

Aaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry. In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost. Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. The American Zionist response to Nazism also shaped the political turmoil in the Middle East which followed Israel's creation. Concerned primarily with providing a home for Jewish refugees and fearing British betrayal, Zionists could not understand Arab protests in defense of their own national interests. Instead they responded to the Arab revolt with armed force and sought to insure their own claim to Palestine. Zionists came to link the Arabs with the Nazi and British forces that were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. In the thinking of American Zionists, the Arabs were steadily transformed from a people with whom an accommodation would have to be made into a mortal enemy to be defeated. Aaron Berman does not apologize for American Jews, but rather tries to understand the constraints within which they operated and what opportunities-if any-they had to respond to Hitler. In surveying the latest scholarship and responding to charges against American Jewry, Berman's arguments are reasoned and reasonable.

Author : Shulamit Reinharz,Mark A. Raider
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584654392

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American Jewish Women and the Zionist Enterprise by Shulamit Reinharz,Mark A. Raider Pdf

The first and only complete exploration of the role of American women in the creation and support of the State of Israel from pre-State years through the struggles of Israel's first decades.

Author : Gulie Ne’eman Arad
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253338093

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America, Its Jews, and the Rise of Nazism by Gulie Ne’eman Arad Pdf

Probing these questions, Gulie Ne'eman Arad finds that, more than the events themselves, what was instrumental in dictating and shaping the American Jews' response to Nazism was the dilemma posed by their desire for acceptance by American society, on the one hand, and their commitment to community solidarity, on the other. When American Jews were faced with the desperate plight of European Jews after Hitler's accession to power, they were hesitant to press the case for immigration for fear of raising doubts about their patriotism.

Author : John Quigley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107138735

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The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders by John Quigley Pdf

This book shows the "deception by omission" used at the United Nations to gain backing for Jewish statehood in Palestine.

Author : David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317791744

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Bystanders to the Holocaust by David Cesarani,Paul A. Levine Pdf

Using accessible archival sources, a team of historians reveal how much the USA, Britain, Switzerland and Sweden knew about the Nazi attempt to murder all the Jews of Europe during World War II.

Author : Mark A Raider
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479861279

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The Emergence of American Zionism by Mark A Raider Pdf

The images of Zionist pioneers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--hard working, brawny, and living off the land--sprang from the ascendent socialist Zionist movement in Palestine known as "Labor Zionism." The building of the Yishuv, a new Jewish society in Palestine, was accompanied by the rapid growth of Zionism worldwide. How did Zionism take shape in the United States? How did Labor Zionism and the Yishuv influence American Jews? Zionism and Labor Zionism had a much more substantial impact on the American Jewish scene than has been recognized. Drawing on meticulous research, Mark A. Raider describes Labor Zionism's dramatic transformation in the American context from a marginal immigrant party into a significant political force. The Emergence of American Zionism challenges many of the prevailing assumptions of Jewish and Zionist history that have held sway for a full generation. It shows how and why American Labor Zionism--"the voice of Labor Palestine on American soil"--played such an important role in formulating the program and outlook of American Zionism. It also examines more generally the impact of Zionism on American Jews, making the case that Zionism's cultural vitality, intellectual diversity, and unparalleled ability to rally public opinion in times of crisis were central to the American Jewish experience.

Author : Marc Dollinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400823857

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Quest for Inclusion by Marc Dollinger Pdf

For over sixty years, Jews have ranked as the most liberal white ethnic group in American politics, figuring prominently in social reform campaigns ranging from the New Deal to the civil rights movement. Today many continue to defy stereotypes that link voting patterns to wealth. What explains this political behavior? Historians have attributed it mainly to religious beliefs, but Marc Dollinger discovered that this explanation fails to account for the entire American Jewish political experience. In this, the first synthetic treatment of Jewish liberalism and U.S. public policy from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, Dollinger identifies the drive for a more tolerant, pluralistic, and egalitarian nation with Jewish desires for inclusion in the larger non-Jewish society. The politics of acculturation, the process by which Jews championed unpopular social causes to ease their adaptation to American life, established them as the guardians of liberal America. But, according to Dollinger, it also erected barriers to Jewish liberal success. Faced with a conflict between liberal politics and their own acculturation, Jews almost always chose the latter. Few Jewish leaders, for example, condemned the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, and most southern Jews refused to join their northern co-religionists in public civil rights protests. When liberals advocated race-based affirmative action programs and busing to desegregate public schools, most Jews dissented. In chronicling the successes, limits, and failures of Jewish liberalism, Dollinger offers a nuanced yet wide-ranging political history, one intended for liberal activists, conservatives curious about the creation of neo-conservatism, and anyone interested in Jewish communal life.

Author : Abraham J Edelheit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429718823

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Bibliography On Holocaust Literature by Abraham J Edelheit Pdf

In this second supplement to their Bibliography on Holocaust Literature, the authors have compiled 4000 new entries to keep pace with the outpouring of literature on the subject. Readers' attention is directed to new materials and to items newly available, including books, pamphlets and journal articles, many of which are catalogued for the first time. There is a new section on Soviet anti-Semitism and expanded coverage of neo-Nazism/neo-fascism.

Author : David Cesarani
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 041527513X

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Holocaust: Jewish confrontations with persecution and mass murder by David Cesarani Pdf

Drawing on the best research produced over the last sixty years, this collection brings together the most significant secondary literature on the Nazi persecution and mass murder of the Jews.

Author : Donald L. Niewyk,Francis R. Nicosia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231528788

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The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust by Donald L. Niewyk,Francis R. Nicosia Pdf

Offering a multidimensional approach to one of the most important episodes of the twentieth century, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust offers readers and researchers a general history of the Holocaust while delving into the core issues and debates in the study of the Holocaust today. Each of the book's five distinct parts stands on its own as valuable research aids; together, they constitute an integrated whole. Part I provides a narrative overview of the Holocaust, placing it within the larger context of Nazi Germany and World War II. Part II examines eight critical issues or controversies in the study of the Holocaust, including the following questions: Were the Jews the sole targets of Nazi genocide, or must other groups, such as homosexuals, the handicapped, Gypsies, and political dissenters, also be included? What are the historical roots of the Holocaust? How and why did the "Final Solution" come about? Why did bystanders extend or withhold aid? Part III consists of a concise chronology of major events and developments that took place surrounding the Holocaust, including the armistice ending World War I, the opening of the first major concentration camp at Dachau, Germany's invasion of Poland, the failed assassination attempt against Hitler, and the formation of Israel. Part IV contains short descriptive articles on more than two hundred key people, places, terms, and institutions central to a thorough understanding of the Holocaust. Entries include Adolf Eichmann, Anne Frank, the Warsaw Ghetto, Aryanization, the SS, Kristallnacht, and the Catholic Church. Part V presents an annotated guide to the best print, video, electronic, and institutional resources in English for further study. Armed with the tools contained in this volume, students or researchers investigating this vast and complicated topic will gain an informed understanding of one of the greatest tragedies in world history.