Jews and Judaism in World History
thereafter, Dmowski’s ascendance to leadership marked a sharp decline for Polish Jewry. In all, the experience of Jews in interw ...
The rise of the Arab–Israeli conflict In studying the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine, it is important to note seve ...
land without people for people without land.” A few Zionists did raise the concern, notably Baruch Epstein. In a 1907 essay enti ...
Ironically, British policy in Palestine was heading the opposite direction. British policy in Palestine was inconsistent, except ...
immigration, the grown-up children of immigrants, once they achieved a measure of financial success and stability, relocated out ...
Ford’s outspoken anti-Semitism prompted a response, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a Jewish organization originally formed in ...
to be recast as voluntary. Thus, he replaced the notion of commandments with what he called folkways, ritual and religious behav ...
Historians have also debated the inherent Germanness of the Holocaust. Some, such as Daniel Goldhagen, rooted Nazism in “elimina ...
With respect to Jews, Hitler’s regime is best divided into three peri- ods:1933 to November 1938; November 1938 to June 1941; an ...
The Nazi conquest of Poland at the end of the 1939 marked the next turn- ing point in its Jewish policy. This invasion brought a ...
elements were largely homogeenous. At the same time, the experience of Jews under Nazi occupation varied from state to state. On ...
citizens and as Bulgarians. Jews in Italy were largely protected by Mussolini until his overthrow in 1943. Only thereafter were ...
of order in the ghettos that made it easier for the Nazis to round up and deport Jews. Most notorious in this regard were the de ...
Yet these were all localized reports The first report of European-wide geno- cide came in August 1942 with the Riegner telegram, ...
That the US government took no action has been explained in terms of both existing anti-Semitism and practical military matters. ...
Soviet prison camp. Individuals such as Wallenberg and other well-known rescuers such as Oskar Schindler were rare exceptions. Y ...
suffering and persecution. This view, though a highly oversimplified view of Jewish history, was harder to critique in the wake ...
At the end of the Second World War, the Zionists were more militant than ever. Zionist leaders such as Chaim Weizmann and David ...
British accosting shiploads of Jewish refugees and denying them entry into Palestine. The most celebrated case was the Exodus, a ...
pro-Arab direction, and ignored the lobbying efforts of the oil industry, which was staunchly pro-Arab. The Soviet Union also su ...
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