American Zionism

by Gurock, Jeffrey S.

• ISBN13: 9780415919326
• ISBN10: 0415919320
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The final volume comprises articles which take a look at the political movement for the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people. The twenty one articles cover subjects such as the historical emergence of Zionism, attitudes towards the Zionist and Anti-Zionist movements in America, and the developments of trusteeship for the Palestine.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series	vii	(6)
Preface	xiii
1. The Memoirs and Scrapbooks of the late Dr. Joseph Isaac Bluestone of New York City	1	(12)
Hyman B. Grinstein
2. Protofundamentalism's Attitudes Toward Zionism, 1878-1918	13	(16)
David A. Rausch
3. The Reaction of Reform Judaism in America to Political Zionism (1897-1922)	29	(34)
Naomi Wiener Cohen
4. The Maccabean's Message: A Study in American Zionism Until World War I	63	(16)
Naomi W. Cohen
5. In Search of a New Zion: New Light on Brandeis' Road to Zionism	79	(13)
Allon Gal
6. Brandeis' Role in American Zionism Historically Reconsidered	92	(33)
Evyatar Friesel
7. The Americanization of Zionism, 1880-1930	125	(18)
Ben Halpern
8. The Brandeis-Weizmann Dispute	143	(32)
George L. Berlin
9. The King-Crane Commission of 1919: The Articulation of Political Anti-Zionism	175	(34)
Stuart E. Knee
10. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Zionism-The War-Time Record	209	(12)
Selig Adler
11. Anti-Zionism in a Key United States Diplomat: Loy Henderson at the End of World War II	221	(34)
Allen H. Podet
12. Truman and the State Department: The Palestine Trusteeship Proposal, March 1948	255	(14)
Michael J. Cohen
13. American Catholic Attitudes Toward the Zionist Movement and the Jewish State as Reflected in the Pages of America, Commonweal, and the Catholic World, 1945-1976	269	(26)
David G. Singer
14. Protestant America and the Rebirth of Israel	295	(12)
William L. Burton
15. Towards Unity: Zionist and Non-Zionist Cooperation, 1941-1942	307	(18)
Isaac Neustadt-Noy
16. Ben-Gurion, Silver, and the 1941 UPA National Conference for Palestine: A Turning Point in American Zionist History	325	(14)
Monty Noam Penkower
17. American Zionism and the Rescue of European Jewry: An Ideological Perspective	339	(22)
Aaron Berman
18. In Dramatic Dissent: The Bergson Boys	361	(30)
Monty Noam Penkower
19. The American Zionist Emergency Council: An Analysis of a Pressure Group	391	(24)
Doreen Bierbrier
20. The Limits of American Jewish Political Power: America's Retreat from Partition, November 1947-March 1948	415	(36)
Zvi Ganin
21. A Cause in Search of Itself: American Zionism After the State	451	(14)
Melvin I. Urofsky
Index	465