Abraham J Edelheit

The Yishuv In The Shadow Of The Holocaust (eBook, ePUB)

Zionist Politics And Rescue Aliya, 1933-1939

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Produktbeschreibung

For the Jewish world and the Yishuv in particular, the 1930s was a time of escalating crises? The rise of the Nazis and their antisemitic policies, the declining fortunes of Eastern European Jewry, increasing Arab enmity, and the hardening of British Mandatory policies in Palestine. Re-examining some of the most controversial episodes in modern Je

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429975370
• Artikelnr.: 56862659

Autorenporträt

Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary. The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Zionism Confronts the Nazi Threat
The Persecution of German Jewry: An Overview
The German Jewish Situation in 1933
Jewish Responses to the Nazi Threat
The Yishuv in 1933
Intra-Zionist Conflict: The Opening Chapter
First Steps
Rescue Aliya: A Conceptual Analysis
The Yishuv"s Institutions React
Finances
Rescue Aliya
and ""Business as Usual
" To Boycott or Not to Boycott?
The Joint Committee to Settle German Jews
Rescue By Means of Immigration
1933-1936
Involving the British
The Eighteenth Zionist Congress
The Rescue Aliya Program Takes Shape
The Politics of Aliya
Zionist Rescue Priorities
The Evacuation Plan
Youth Aliya
The Haavara Agreement
Aliya Bet
Aliya and Intra-Zionist Politics
Immigration and Absorption
From Hitachdut Olei Germania to Ahdut ha-Am
Hitachdut Olei Germania Expands
Intra-Zionist Rivalries
1933-1934
The Ben-Gurion-Jabotinsky Agreements
The Revisionist Schism
Evaluation
Rescue Aliya and Zionist Foreign Relations
Yishuv Developments
1933-1936
Imperial Policy and the Jews" Fate
The Arab Revolt
The Peel Commission
The Partition Plan
The Twentieth Zionist Congress
Time as an Enemy of Rescue Aliya
1937: Rescue Aliya in Crisis
Declining Conditions in Europe
German Jewry in the Era of Bloodless Conquests
Zionist Responses to Changing Conditions
Rescue Aliya"s Final Days
New Efforts at Zionist Unity
Aliya in the Shadow of a "Political Maximum
" The Decline of Rescue Aliya
Intra-Zionist Relations at a Breaking Point
The Decline of Rescue Aliya
Intra-Zionist Relations at a New Crossroad
The Retreat From Partition
The Evian Conference and its Aftermath
Zionist-British Relations in the Shadow of Munich
Toward the Abandonment of the Jews
Kristallnacht and its Aftermath
The End of Rescue Aliya
The Search for a Safe Haven
The London (St. James Palace) Conference
Aliya Bet and Eleventh Hour Rescue
The Collapse of Capitalist Aliya
New Talks With the Administration; New Protests
German Jewry in the Throes of Destruction
The Case of Pidyon Shevuyim
The White Paper
April 1939: The Eleventh Hour Passes
The Eve of Betrayal
The White Paper
Final Efforts at Intra-Zionist Unity
Immigration Under the White Paper Regime
The Bitter End
Conclusion
Appendix: Aliya Bet Ships
Notes
Bibliography
About the Book and Author
Index