TY  - BOOK
AU  - Segev, Zohar
AB  - Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.--Provided by publisher.
DO  - 10.1515/9783110320268
ID  - OAPEN ID: 483357
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 883909770
KW  - jewish culture and history
KW  - holocaust
KW  - jewish (1939-1945)
KW  - contemporary history
KW  - politics
KW  - American Jews
KW  - Europe
KW  - Jews
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Palestine (region)
KW  - The Holocaust
KW  - United States
KW  - World Jewish Congress
KW  - Zionism
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/6ebd5aca-5f4c-4646-9518-7c01f9f67f58/483357.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33382
PB  - De Gruyter
PP  - Berlin, Germany / Boston, MA
PY  - 2014
SN  - 9783110320022
TI  - The World Jewish Congress During The Holocaust - Between Activism and Restraintnull
ER  - 
