Israel's Moment

'Politics makes strange bedfellows. A pro-Zionist but anti-communist American president, a Soviet Bloc intent on rolling back British imperialism, and a mix of liberals and leftists still fired up by the anti-fascist élan born of the war: such was the international coalition that helped shepherd the State of Israel into existence. Jeffrey Herf 's lucid and well-researched new book provides a vivid account of how this coalition came to be. It is a story full of ironies and surprises.' Philip Nord, author of After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France

Vorwort
A new account of support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine in the United States and Europe from 1945 to 1949.

Autorentext
Jeffrey Herf is a Distinguished University Professor of Modern European history at the University of Maryland. He is the author of Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989 (2016). He is a member of the American Historical Association and the German Studies Association.

Klappentext
Israel's Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, public and private archives, Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine. In an unprecedented international account, he explores the role of the United States, the Arab States, the Palestine Arabs, the Zionists, and key European governments from Britain and France to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Poland. His findings reveal a spectrum of support and opposition that stood in sharp contrast to the political coordinates that emerged during the Cold War, shedding new light on how and why the state of Israel was established in 1948 and challenging conventional associations of left and right, imperialism and anti-imperialism, and racism and anti-racism.

Zusammenfassung
Israel's Moment is a major new account of the foundation of the State of Israel from 1945 to 1949. Jeffrey Herf reveals how support for and opposition to the Jewish state in Palestine in the United States and Europe was very different from the way these positions came to be understood during the Cold War.

Inhalt
List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; A Note on Style; 1. Introduction; 2. Zionist Momentum and the War Crimes Issue in the United States, 1944-1945; 3. American Liberals and Leftists Support Zionist Aspirations, 1945-1947; 4. Haj Amin al-Husseini and the French Government: May 1945-May 1946; 5. The 'Question of Palestine' at the United Nations General Assembly's First Special Session: April-May 1947; 6. The Truman Doctrine, the Cold War and Jewish Refugees, Spring 1947; 7. The French Government, Jewish Immigration to Palestine, and the Exodus Affair; 8. Zionist Momentum and the U.S. and British Governments' Counteroffensive: September to December 1947; 9. The U.S. State Department Policy Planning Staff Memos Oppose the UN Partition Resolution: January-February 1948; 10. The U.S. and UN Arms Embargo: November 1947-May 1948; 11. Responses in Washington, the United Nations, and in Europe to the Establishment of the State of Israel: May and June 1948; 12. International Responses to the Arab-Israeli War I: May-June 1948; 13. International Responses to the Arab Israeli War II: July-August, 1948; 14. The U.S. and Britain Again in Opposition: The Bernadotte Plan to the End of the 1948 War; 15. Israel's Admission to the UN, and Sharret's (Shertok's) and Ben Gurion's Retrospectives; 16. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

#	Onlineshop	Preis CHF	Versand CHF	Total CHF
1	Seller	0.00	0.00	0.00