A01=Frank W. Brecher
and Government
Author_Frank W. Brecher
Category=JBSR
Category=JPQB
Category=JPS
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Law
Politics
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- ISBN 9780313279003
- Weight: 510g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 1991
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 furnishes information that can enhance understanding of current U.S. policy toward Israel as well as the current war in the Middle East.
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.
