American Zionism: Missions and Politics: American Jewish History

by Jeffrey Gurock (Editor)

Overview

The final volume comprises articles which take a look at the political movement for the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people. The twenty one articles cover subjects such as the historical emergence of Zionism, attitudes towards the Zionist and Anti-Zionist movements in America, and the developments of trusteeship for the Palestine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415919326
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/23/1998
Series:	American Jewish History , #8
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The Memoirs and Scrapbooks of the Late Dr. Joseph Isaac Bluestone of New York City.; Protofundamentalism's Attitudes Toward Zionism, 1878–1918; The Reaction of Reform Judaism in America to Political Zionism (1897–1922); The Maccabaean's Message: A Study in American Zionism Until World War I *; In Search of a New Zion: New Light on Brandeis' Road to Zionism; Brandeis' Role in American Zionism Historically Reconsidered; The Americanization of Zionism, 1880–1930; The Brandeis-Weizmann Dispute; The King-Crane Commission of 1919: The Articulation of Political Anti-Zionism; Franklin D. Roosevelt and Zionism— The Wartime Record *; Anti-Zionism in a Key United States Diplomat: Loy Henderson at the End of World War II 1; Truman and the State Department: The Palestine Trusteeship Proposal, March 1948; American Catholic Attitudes Toward the Zionist Movement and the Jewish State As Reflected in the Pages of America, Commonweal, and the Catholic World, 1945–1976; Protestant America and the Rebirth of Israel; Toward Unity: Zionist and non-Zionist Cooperation, 1941–1942; Ben-Gurion, Silver, and the 1941 UPA National Conference for Palestine: A Turning Point in American Zionist History; American Zionism and the Rescue of European Jewry: An Ideological Perspective; In Dramatic Dissent: The Bergson Boys; The American Zionist Emergency Council: An Analysis of a Pressure Group; The Limits of American Jewish Political Power: America's Retreat from Partition, November 1947-March 1948; A Cause in Search of Itself: American Zionism After the State