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100	1		_aBerman, Aaron, _d1952- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aNazism, The Jews and American Zionism, 1933-1948 / _cAaron Berman.
264		1	_aDetroit : _bWayne State University Press, _c[2018]
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2018
264		4	_c©[2018]
300			_a1 online resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aThe publication of this volume in a freely accessible digital format has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation through their Humanities Open Book Program.
505	0		_aAmerican Zionism and the external threat, 1933-1936 -- A reordering of priorities : the homeland under siege -- War and statehood -- American Zionism and the Holocaust -- The American Zionist lobby, 1943-1945 : a summary and a case study -- The triumph of American Zionism -- Conclusions.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
520			_aAaron Berman takes a moderate and measured approach to one of the most emotional issues in American Jewish historiography, namely, the response of American Jews to Nazism and the extermination of European Jewry. In remarkably large numbers, American Jews joined the Zionist crusade to create a Jewish state that would finally end the problem of Jewish homelessness, which they believed was the basic cause not only of the Holocaust but of all anti-Semitism. Though American Zionists could justly claim credit for the successful establishment of Israel in 1948, this triumph was not without cost. Their insistence on including a demand for Jewish statehood in any proposal to aid European Jewry politicized the rescue issue and made it impossible to appeal for American aid on purely humanitarian grounds. The American Zionist response to Nazism also shaped he political turmoil in the Middle East which followed Israel's creation. Concerned primarily with providing a home for Jewish refugees and fearing British betrayal, Zionists could not understand Arab protests in defense of their own national interests. Instead they responded to the Arab revolt with armed force and sought to insure their own claim to Palestine, Zionists came to link he Arabs with the Nazi and British forces that were opposed to the establishment of a Jewish state. In the thinking of American Zionists, the Arabs were steadily transformed from a people with whom an accommodation would have to be made into a mortal enemy to be defeated. Aaron Berman does not apologize for American Jews, but rather tries to understand the constraints within which they operated and what opportunities-if any-they had to respond to Hitler. In surveying the latest scholarship and responding o charges against American Jewry, Berman⁰́₉s arguments are reasoned and reasonable.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aZionism _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01184468
650		7	_aPublic opinion _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01082785
650		7	_aJews _xPolitics and government _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00983330
650		7	_aJews _xAttitudes _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00983142
650		7	_aEthnic relations _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00916005
650		7	_aPOLITICAL SCIENCE _xWorld _xEuropean. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aHISTORY _xHolocaust. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOC049000. _2bisacsh
650		6	_aJuifs _xAttitudes.
650		6	_aOpinion publique _zÉtats-Unis.
650		6	_aHolocauste, 1939-1945 _xOpinion publique.
650		0	_aJews _xAttitudes.
650		0	_aPublic opinion _zUnited States.
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) _xPublic opinion.
650		0	_aZionism _zUnited States.
650		0	_aJews _zUnited States _xPolitics and government.
651		7	_aUnited States _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01204155
651		6	_aÉtats-Unis _xRelations interethniques.
651		0	_aUnited States _xEthnic relations.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
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830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/61461/
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