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Title Jews and the state : dangerous alliances and the perils of privilege / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn
Published New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in contemporary Jewry, 0740-8625 ; 19
Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 19. 0740-8625
Contents Symposium: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege; Jews and the State: The Historical Context; The Jewish Response to Apartheid: The Record and Its Consequences; "If I Am Not for Myself"/"If I Am Only for Myself": Jews, the American South, and the Quandary of Self-Interest; Finding a Balance in a Dual Society: The Jews of Quebec; French Jews and the "Regeneration" of Algerian Jewry; From Dhimmis to Colonized Subjects: Moroccan Jews and the Sharifian and French Colonial State
Hungarian Jewish Politics from the End of the Second World War until the Collapse of CommunismThe Vicious Circle: Jews in Communist Poland, 1944-1956; Romanian Jewry under Rabbi Moses Rosen during the Ceausescu Regime; Essays; The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia and the Evolution of the St. Petersburg Russian Jewish Intelligentsia, 1893-1905; Bureaucracy, Agents, and Swindlers: The Hardships of Jewish Emigration from the Pale of Settlement in the Early 20th Century; Review Essays; Trapped in the Middle East Maze; Arendt on Eichmann Revisited
Do the Ties Still Bind? American Jews and IsraelBook Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature, and the Arts; Religion, Thought, and Education; Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East; Contents for Volume XX; Note on Editorial Policy
Summary Bringing together contributions from established scholars from multiple disciplines and countries, Volume XIX of Studies in Contemporary Jewry offers a comparative view of alliances between Jewish communities and the state. Together, the volume's contents show the price Jews paid for allying with unpopular regimes. The essays cover the American South, South Africa, Canada, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Jews -- Europe -- Politics and government
Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Europe -- History
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Jews -- Politics and government
SUBJECT Europe -- Ethnic relations
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mendelsohn, Ezra.
ISBN 1423720636
9781423720638
9780195170870
0195170873
1602564760
9781602564763