Abraham J Edelheit

Broschiertes Buch

The Yishuv in the Shadow of the Holocaust

Zionist Politics and Rescue Aliya, 1933-1939

Beschreibung

Re-examining some of the most controversial episodes in modern Jewish history, this invaluable study offers the first systematic institutional analysis of the Yishuv's responses to the imperative of saving German and European Jewry from the growing Nazi threat between 1933 and 1939.

Autor

Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary. The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780813336435
• ISBN-10: 0813336430
• Artikelnr.: 22291774