The Road to September 1939 – Polish Jews, Zionists, and the Yishuv on the Eve of World War II

Jehuda Reinharz, Yaacov Shavit (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

408 Seiten

2020
Brandeis University Press (Verlag)
9781684580071 (ISBN)

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In European and Holocaust historiography, it is generally believed that neither the Zionist movement nor the Yishuv were mindful of the plight of European Jews in the face of the Nazi threat during the 1930s. Drawing on a wide variety of memoirs, letters, and institutional reports by people from all walks of life, this volume sheds new light on a troubled period in Jewish history. Jehuda Reinharz and Yaacov Shavit trace Jewish responses to developments in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as reactions to British policy on the question of a Jewish homeland, to show that Zionists in the Yishuv worked tirelessly on the international stage on behalf of their coreligionists in Europe. Nevertheless, their efforts were all too often shattered by the realities of their powerlessness and lack of resources. Piercing to the heart of conversations about how or whether to save Jews in an increasingly hostile Europe, this volume provides a nuanced assessment of what could and could not be achieved in the years just prior to World War II and Holocaust.

Jehuda Reinharz is the Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History at Brandeis University. He is the president of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation. Yaacov Shavit is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University. They are the coauthors of Darwin and His Circle and Glorious Accursed Europe: An Essay on Jewish Ambivalence.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.01.2020
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	644 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-13	9781684580071 / 9781684580071
Zustand	Neuware