Bibliograph

Israel's moment, international support for and opposition to establishing the Jewish state, 1945-1949, Jeffrey Herf

Type

Label

Israel's moment, international support for and opposition to establishing the Jewish state, 1945-1949, Jeffrey Herf

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-478) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Israel's moment

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Jeffrey Herf

Sub title

international support for and opposition to establishing the Jewish state, 1945-1949

Summary

Israel's Moment is a major new account of how a Jewish state came to be forged in the shadow of World War Two and the Holocaust and the onset of the Cold War. Drawing on new research in government, public and private archives, Jeffrey Herf exposes the political realities that underpinned support for and opposition to Zionist aspirations in Palestine. In an unprecedented international account, he explores the role of the United States, the Arab States, the Palestine Arabs, the Zionists, and key European governments from Britain and France to the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Poland. His findings reveal a spectrum of support and opposition that stood in sharp contrast to the political coordinates that emerged during the Cold War, shedding new light on how and why the state of Israel was established in 1948 and challenging conventional associations of left and right, imperialism and anti-imperialism, and racism and anti-racism

Classification