War, Jews and the New Europe
Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914-19
Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization;
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Product details:
- Publisher The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Date of Publication 1 September 1992
- ISBN 9780197100721
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages364 pages
- Size 215x135 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 Maps 0
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Short description:
'Levene achieves an impressive critical distance from his subject, and this will possibly place his work among the more authoritative interpretations in the long run . . . An immensely valuable book, which will be of interest to scholars in Anglo-Jewish history, east European Jewish history and politics, Zionist history, diplomatic history, and those interested in the eternally grey zone between peoples, ethnic groups, and publicly recognized nations while the world is crashing down.'
Michael Berkowitz, AJS Review
Long description:
The First World War was a major watershed in modern Jewish history. Out of it came the Balfour Declaration, a first critical step in the creation of the State of Israel, but also a radical redrafting of the political map of eastern and central Europe, with dramatic and potentially tragic consequences for its dispersed but substantial Jewish minority.
In this lucid work, which was awarded the 1991 Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History, Mark Levene approaches these developments through the diplomatic endeavours of Lucien Wolf, a British Jew who was both one of the chief proponents of the Balfour Declaration and co-architect of the Minorities Treaty that provided an internationally endorsed framework for Jewish existence in Europe after the First World War. Through an analysis of Wolf's diplomacy, Levene examines how Jewish interests throughout Europe were affected by the Great War and how they were perceived by the warring powers.
Levene shows how british support for Zionism was bound up with misconceptions about the Jewish role in Europe, notably that the revolutionary movement in Russia was Jewish-inspired and Jewish-led. Equally, however, he shows how the diplomatic activities of Wolf and his Jewish contemporaries heralded the entry of 'world Jewry' as a perceived force in modern politics, and how Wolf himself was preoccupied with eastern Europe and its jews at a precarious time. He also analyses how the war affected Jewish political self-perceptions, reviewing the context between assimilationists and Zionists in the broader framework of war, peace, and international diplomacy. His consideration of their conflicting claims says much that is of relevance to the contemporary discussion of Zionism as well as to the problems of ethnic and religious minorities in nation-states.
Table of Contents:
List of maps
Abbreviations
A Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Part 1: The Challenge of War
The Challenge to the Community ? The Challenge to the Conjoint ? The Power of the Jews
Part II: Wolf and the Zionists
Palestine as Propaganda ? The Ideological Rift ? Zionism verus Bolshevism ? The End of the Conjoint
Part III: The Jews as a National Minority
National Autonomy ? The Breakup of Empires ? The Struggle with the Polish National Committee ? The Art of Compromise
Part IV: The Peace
Problems ? A Case in Point: Romania ? French, American, and Other Jewish Delegations ? The New States Committee and the Peace Settlement
Conclusion: In Alliance with the British?
Appendix: The Polish Minority Treaty, 1919
References
Index
