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War, Jews and the New Europe - Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914-19 (Paperback, New Ed)
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War, Jews and the New Europe - Diplomacy of Lucien Wolf, 1914-19 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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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.
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