Jews and the state : dangerous alliances and the perils of privilege / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendelsohn, Ezra.

Series:

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 19.

Studies in contemporary Jewry ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Europe--Politics and government.

Jews.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Europe--History.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume offers a comparative view of alliances between Jewish communities and the state to show the price Jews paid for allying with unpopular regimes. The essays cover the American South, South Africa, Canada, Algeria, Morocco, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia.

Contents:

Contents; Symposium: Jews and the State: Dangerous Alliances and the Perils of Privilege; Jews and the State: The Historical Context; The Jewish Response to Apartheid: The Record and Its Consequences; "If I Am Not for Myself"/"If I Am Only for Myself": Jews, the American South, and the Quandary of Self-Interest; Finding a Balance in a Dual Society: The Jews of Quebec; French Jews and the "Regeneration" of Algerian Jewry; From Dhimmis to Colonized Subjects: Moroccan Jews and the Sharifian and French Colonial State

Hungarian Jewish Politics from the End of the Second World War until the Collapse of CommunismThe Vicious Circle: Jews in Communist Poland, 1944-1956; Romanian Jewry under Rabbi Moses Rosen during the Ceausescu Regime; Essays; The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia and the Evolution of the St. Petersburg Russian Jewish Intelligentsia, 1893-1905; Bureaucracy, Agents, and Swindlers: The Hardships of Jewish Emigration from the Pale of Settlement in the Early 20th Century; Review Essays; Trapped in the Middle East Maze; Arendt on Eichmann Revisited

Do the Ties Still Bind? American Jews and IsraelBook Reviews; Antisemitism, Holocaust, and Genocide; History and the Social Sciences; Language, Literature, and the Arts; Religion, Thought, and Education; Zionism, Israel, and the Middle East; Contents for Volume XX; Note on Editorial Policy

Notes:

"Published for The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem".

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-56044-4

0-19-534687-4

1-4237-2063-6

1-60256-476-0

OCLC:

61342470