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Jewish internationalism and human rights after the Holocaust / Nathan A. Kurz (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Kurz, Nathan A., 1983- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY ; Port Melbourne, VIC ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, [2021]

xiii, 297 Seiten

Englisch

Bibliographie: Seite 255-281

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

Erscheint auch als: Jewish internationalism and human rights after the Holocaust / Kurz, Nathan A. (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-108-83492-6 (hardback); 978-1-108-79256-1 (paperback)

978-1-108-87042-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

1692218077

OCoLC: 1225616450     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108870429

PW 5500  | NY 4000      Ähnliche Literatur

JC571

341.4/8

Basisklassifikation: 86.85 (Menschenrechte) ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel)

*Juden ; Völkerrecht ; Menschenrecht ; Geschichte 1948-2000     Zum Register

*Juden ; Völkerrecht ; Menschenrecht ; Geschichte 1948-2000      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Human rights advocacy ; Human rights -- History -- 20th century ; International law -- Religious aspects -- Judaism ; Jews -- History -- 20th century ; Antisemitsm -- History -- 20th Century ; Israel and the diaspora

"This book examines the separation between Western Jewish advocacy organizations and international human rights after the creation of Israel. For nearly a century, Jewish lawyers and advocacy groups in Western Europe and the United States pioneered forms of international rights protection, tying the defense of Jews to norms and rules that aspired to curb the worst behavior of rapacious nation-states. In the wake of the Holocaust and the creation of the State of Israel, however, Jewish activists discovered they could no longer promote the same norms, laws and innovations without fear they could soon apply to the Jewish state. Bringing to light previously unexamined sources, this book examines the transformation of Jewish internationalism from an effort to constrain the power of nation-states to one focused on cementing Israel's legitimacy and its status as a haven for refugees from across the Jewish diaspora. In a series of chronological and thematic chapters that stretch across the broad scope of the Jewish world between the 1940s and 1980s, this study brings to light the tensions that eroded and eventually ended a longstanding alliance"--Provided by publisher