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Without a mandate : the story of the "Bergson Group" and its campaign for a Jewish Army to save the Jewish people of Europe, and the establishment of a Hebrew Republic in Palestine. The evolution of a delegation of the Irgun Zvai Leumi into the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation / S. Merlin ; with an introduction by Rafael Medoff ; Editor: Rebecca Kook ; Copy editor: Renate Schein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merlin, Samuel, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bergson Group.
- Kook, Hillel, 1915-2001.
- Kook, Hillel.
- Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).
- Jews--Political activity--United States.
- Jews.
- Jewish politicians--United States.
- Jewish politicians.
- Jews--United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Israel--History--20th century.
- Israel.
- Revisionist Zionism--United States.
- Revisionist Zionism.
- Jews--Political activity.
- Jews--Politics and government.
- United States.
- Zionism.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 441 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Haifa] : Herzl Institute for Research and Study of Zionism, University of Haifa, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Without a Mandate" is Merlin's posthumously published account of the Bergson Group's campaigns for U.S. government action to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. It offers an insider's perspective, a chronicle of a battle by one of the combatants. As such, it is a vital historical document and contributes to our understanding of one of the most consequential eras in modern Jewish history.
- Contents:
- Introduction - Samuel Merlin, Thinker and Activist
- Part I: "Dos Yiddishe Folk" : The People (The Hebrew Nation)
- Setting the stage for Hitler
- Hebrew Liberation Movement
- Part II: The Hebrew Emissaries : A sketch of the emissaries
- The American Friends of a Jewish Palestine
- Innovations, a new approachand unprecedented methods
- The Committee for a Jewish Army
- A proclamation On the Moral Rights of the Stateless and Palestinian Jews
- Part III: The Holocaust : Could the Jews have been saved?
- The Bermuda Conference
- A Strange Episode in the U.S. Senate
- The Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe
- The Struggle for a Special Agency
- Three Protestants and One Emancipated Jew
- The War Refugee Board
- Did the WRB Live up to Expectations?
- Part IV: Campaign to Save the Last Two Million Jews : "Free Ports" for Human beings
- The Campaign to Save the Jews of Hungary
- Horthy Announces His Readiness To Let All the Jews Leave
- U.S. and Great Britain Were Avers (or Recoiled from)To Accept Horthy's Offer
- Temporary Shelters in Palestine
- The Eri Jabotinsky file
- The arrest and deportation of Aryeh Ben-Eliezer
- Negotiating with the enemy
- Retaliation : the proposal to use poison gas against the Germans
- Part V: Conclusion
- Reflections on the Holocaust.
- Notes:
- "The evolution of a delegation of the Irgun Zvai Leumi into the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation" -- title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789659297412
- 9659297416
- OCLC:
- 1374023300
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