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The
Year after the Riots American Responses to the Palestine Crisis of 1929-30 Naomi W. Cohen |
In
August, 1929, Arabs in Palestine rose up in bloody riots against Jews. More
than 130 Jews were killed, among them eight young American students. American
Jews, hampered by the postwar mood of disillusionment and isolationism and
by the vicious anti-Semitic attacks of the 1920s, failed to mount an effective
campaign to influence either the government or public opinion. In addition,
the community itself was hopelessly divided. Rival factions, some led by
men who frequently sacrificed issue for ego, could not counter the anti-Zionist
case. In The Year After the Riots, Naomi W. Cohen makes the first in-depth study of American responses to the riots and reveals the isolation and weaknesses of American Jewry. Official noninvolvement, anti-Semitism, and Jewish disunity are presented as an ominous prologue to the Hitler era. |
"The
research in this book is excellent . . . Naomi Cohen is one of the established
most highly-regarded people working in modern Jewish American history. Each
of her books is a finely crafted piece of historical research and writing." —Martin Urofsky, Virginia Commonwealth University |
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| $34.95s
cloth / ISBN 0-8143-1914-9 212 pages 1988 |
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