The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust: Between Activism and Restraint
Zohar Segev's new work attempts to demonstrate that the World Jewish Congress does not receive the credit it deserves for its actions on behalf of European Jewry during the Holocaust. While it is true that many of the accomplishments of the WJC have been ignored in the literature, however, Sege...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2016
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2016, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 148-150 |
| Review of: | The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust (Berlin [u.a.] : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2014) (Bryant, Elizabeth)
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| Summary: | Zohar Segev's new work attempts to demonstrate that the World Jewish Congress does not receive the credit it deserves for its actions on behalf of European Jewry during the Holocaust. While it is true that many of the accomplishments of the WJC have been ignored in the literature, however, Segev's passion does not translate into a sound scholarly case, and he often goes off topic attempting to prove his assertions., One of Segev's main arguments, and perhaps one of his more controversial, is that the WJC functioned more as an American than an international Jewish organization. He suggests this largely because the WJC was headquartered in the U.S. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dcw018 |