Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Holocaust Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
26,3 (2020) 283-305
Keywords:
Tenuʻat ha-ḥerut (Israel)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Reparations
;
Boycotts
;
Israel Foreign relations
;
Germany Foreign relations
Abstract:
The question of relations with Germany after the Holocaust was one of the most volatile issues on the Israeli-Jewish agenda. The approach formulated from the end of the Second World War called for a comprehensive and total boycott that would continue for generations to come. However, from the moment the reparations issue appeared on the Israeli-German agenda in the fall of 1951, a consistent retreat from the anti-German boycott policy ensued. This development reached its peak with the establishment of historic diplomatic relations between Jerusalem and Bonn in May 1965. In the following article, I intend to show that the Israeli right-wing movement, namely the Herut Movement acted with all its power to maintain the Israeli-Jewish boycott policy against Germany and was in fact the leading political/public entity in the State of Israel to act on this issue.
DOI:
10.1080/17504902.2019.1582891
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