Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt
United States diplomatic policy towards European Jews, Zionists, and Israelis remains vitally important to the stability and international posture of numerous countries. This study traces the evolution of that policy from its roots in isolated responses to post-World War I antisemitism to its coherent statement in the post-World War II era. Topics such as the Jewish minority problem in Europe, the history of U.S.-Zionist relations, and the American response to the Holocaust, often treated separately, are here studied together, and their integral part within U.S. policy emphasized.

Told in narrative form, this is the story of the origins of U.S. policy towards European Jews and the Jews' reaction to that policy. Reluctant Ally is a powerful account of how the American outrage at mistreatment of European Jewry joined with the Zionist movement to support the inevitable settling of Palestine. Policy changed rapidly from 1900 to mid-century, and this objective discussion of the various aspects of that development brings many new facts to light and furbanishes information that can enhance understanding of current U.S. policy toward Israel as well as the current war in the Middle East.

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Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt
United States diplomatic policy towards European Jews, Zionists, and Israelis remains vitally important to the stability and international posture of numerous countries. This study traces the evolution of that policy from its roots in isolated responses to post-World War I antisemitism to its coherent statement in the post-World War II era. Topics such as the Jewish minority problem in Europe, the history of U.S.-Zionist relations, and the American response to the Holocaust, often treated separately, are here studied together, and their integral part within U.S. policy emphasized.

Told in narrative form, this is the story of the origins of U.S. policy towards European Jews and the Jews' reaction to that policy. Reluctant Ally is a powerful account of how the American outrage at mistreatment of European Jewry joined with the Zionist movement to support the inevitable settling of Palestine. Policy changed rapidly from 1900 to mid-century, and this objective discussion of the various aspects of that development brings many new facts to light and furbanishes information that can enhance understanding of current U.S. policy toward Israel as well as the current war in the Middle East.

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Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt

Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt

by Frank W. Brecher
Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt

Reluctant Ally: United States Foreign Policy Toward the Jews from Wilson to Roosevelt

by Frank W. Brecher

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United States diplomatic policy towards European Jews, Zionists, and Israelis remains vitally important to the stability and international posture of numerous countries. This study traces the evolution of that policy from its roots in isolated responses to post-World War I antisemitism to its coherent statement in the post-World War II era. Topics such as the Jewish minority problem in Europe, the history of U.S.-Zionist relations, and the American response to the Holocaust, often treated separately, are here studied together, and their integral part within U.S. policy emphasized.

Told in narrative form, this is the story of the origins of U.S. policy towards European Jews and the Jews' reaction to that policy. Reluctant Ally is a powerful account of how the American outrage at mistreatment of European Jewry joined with the Zionist movement to support the inevitable settling of Palestine. Policy changed rapidly from 1900 to mid-century, and this objective discussion of the various aspects of that development brings many new facts to light and furbanishes information that can enhance understanding of current U.S. policy toward Israel as well as the current war in the Middle East.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313279003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/30/1991
Series: Global Perspectives in History and Politics , #27
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile: 1870L (what's this?)

About the Author

FRANK W. BRECHER is presently a consultant and writer on international affairs. For more than 20 years he served as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. State Department's Agency for International Development.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Woodrow Wilson During the "Great War"
Woodrow Wilson and the "King Crane Commission" to the Near East
Woodrow Wilson and the "Minorities Treaties"
Charles R. Crane's Crusade for the Arabs, 1919-1939
The Onset of the Hitlerian Period, 1933-1941
American Diplomacy Toward the Jews During the Hitlerian Period
Afterword: America's Response to the Holocaust—A Controversy
Bibliography
Index

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