| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Chapter 1: Zionism and Its Reform: Jewish Critichs in America Before World War II; Chapter 2: The Rebellion of the Dissident Reform Rabbis; Chapter 3: The Formation of the American Council for Judaism; Chapter 4: The Council's Wartime Anti-Zionist Campaign; Chapter 5: Between War and Peace; Chapter 6: The Search for Compromise in Palestine; Chapter 7: The Emergence of Israel; Epilogue and Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliographical Note; Index |
| Summary |
This is the first full-scale history of the only organized American Jewish opposition to Zionism during the 1940s. Despite extensive literature on the Zionist movement, the Jewish opposition to Zionism has received only marginal and usually negative attention. In this impartial study, Thomas A. Kolsky examines the neglected phenomenon of Jewish anti-Zionism, its roots, and its results. In 1942, a number of dissident Reform rabbis founded the American Council for Judaism, the first and only Jewish organization created to fight against Zionism and the establishment of a Jewish stat |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-256) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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American Council for Judaism -- History
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| SUBJECT |
American Council for Judaism fast |
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American Council for Judaism gnd |
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Zionism.
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Jews -- United States -- Politics and government
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Zionism and Judaism.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Jews -- Politics and government
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Zionism
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Zionism and Judaism
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Antizionismus
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Geschichte 1942-1948.
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United States
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USA
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Juden.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781439903759 |
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1439903751 |
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0877226946 |
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9780877226949 |
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