ISBN:
9781108834926
,
9781108792561
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 297 Seiten
Year of publication:
2021
Series Statement:
Human rights in history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
341.4/8
Keywords:
Geschichte 1948-2000
;
Völkerrecht
;
Menschenrecht
;
Juden
;
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
;
Human rights
;
Human rights advocacy
;
International law / Religious aspects / Judaism
;
Israel and the diaspora
;
Jews
;
1900-1999
;
History
;
Juden
;
Völkerrecht
;
Menschenrecht
;
Geschichte 1948-2000
Abstract:
"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
