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oapen-20.500.12657-333822021-04-30T09:24:34Z The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraint Segev, Zohar jewish culture and history holocaust jewish (1939-1945) contemporary history politics American Jews Europe Jews Judaism Palestine (region) The Holocaust United States World Jewish Congress Zionism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSR Religious groups: social & cultural aspects::JFSR1 Jewish studies 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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--Provided by publisher. 2018-06-27 23:55 2014-12-31 23:55:55 2020-01-07 16:47:06 2020-04-01T14:42:00Z 2020-04-01T14:42:00Z 2014 book 483357 OCN: 883909770 2192-9645 9783110320022 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33382 eng New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 483357.pdf http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/208190?rskey=CbDlsH&result=1 De Gruyter 10.1515/9783110320268 10.1515/9783110320268 2b386f62-fc18-4108-bcf1-ade3ed4cf2f3 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783110320022 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Volume 7 251 Berlin, Germany / Boston, MA KU Pilot Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--Provided by publisher.
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