Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,2 (2022) 234-252
Keywords:
Margolis, Laura,
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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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World War, 1939-1945 Diplomatic history
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Jewish refugees Services for
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Jewish women Political activity
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United States Foreign relations 20th century
Abstract:
This article focuses on Laura Margolis’s work for the American Joint Distribution Committee, an American Jewish philanthropic organization, as an example of the way gender shaped American international NGOs and American diplomacy more broadly during the Second World War. Margolis’s gender and Jewishness both set limits and offered unprecedented opportunities for the expression of American Jewish internationalism on the ground in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. Through her use of strategies only available to a woman, Margolis was able to succeed in her mission of saving Jewish refugees in Shanghai and spreading American democratic values.
DOI:
10.1080/14725886.2021.1984832
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