Cambridge University Press is
publishing a book on the relationship between Jewish internationalism and international
rights protection in the second half of the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Nathan A. Kurz charts the fraught
relationship between Jewish internationalism and international rights
protection in the second half of the twentieth century. For nearly a century,
Jewish lawyers and advocacy groups in Western Europe and the United States had
pioneered forms of international rights protection, tying the defense of Jews
to norms and rules that aspired to curb the worst behavior of rapacious
nation-states. In the wake of the Holocaust and the creation of the State of
Israel, however, Jewish activists discovered they could no longer promote the
same norms, laws and innovations without fear they could soon apply to the
Jewish state. Using previously unexamined sources, Nathan Kurz examines the
transformation of Jewish internationalism from an effort to constrain the power
of nation-states to one focused on cementing Israel's legitimacy and its status
as a haven for refugees from across the Jewish diaspora.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathan A. Kurz, Birkbeck College,
University of London
Nathan A. Kurz has taught at Yale
University and Birkbeck College, University of London and has served a visiting
fellow at Oxford University.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dramatis Personae
Introduction
1. “Individual rights were not
enough for true freedom”
2. Who Will Tame the Will to Defy
Humanity?
3. The Consequences of 1948
4. Exit from North Africa
5. From Antisemitism to “Zionism
is Racism”
6. The Inadequacy of Madison
Avenue Methods
7.“Good words have become the
servants of evil masters”
Conclusion
Bibliography.
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