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almahu_9949244101602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (240 p.)
ISBN:
9783110320268
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9783110638165
Serie:
New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History , 7
Inhalt:
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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110638165
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110376951
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110320022
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
DOI:
10.1515/9783110320268
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