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Organizing Rescue - Jewish National Solidarity in the Modern Period (Hardcover)
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Organizing Rescue - Jewish National Solidarity in the Modern Period (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jewish History and Identity
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Upheavals of the modern period have dramatically changed the
traditional pattern of the rescue of Jews by Jews. Whereas until
the mid-nineteenth century rescue was carried out by community
leaders in accordance with the religiously rooted injunction for
the redemption of captives, in the modern period largely secular
international Jewish organizations and the State of Israel have
emerged as the primary instruments of expressing Jewish national
solidarity. The campaigns to restore the exodus from the Soviet
Union and to rescue Ethiopian Jews through Operation Moses are the
most recent expressions of the imperative to save threatened Jewish
communities and reconstitute them elsewhere. The dynamics and
achievements of organized rescue in the modern period are
critically assessed in this volume, which includes 18 interpretive
essays and case studies by leading European, American and Israeli
scholars. Organizing Rescue is divided into four sections. The
introductory essays examine the roots of Jewish solidarity in
Jewish law, and trace the transformation of rescue activity from a
religious to a largely secular undertaking. The three sections that
follow group selected case studies chronologically. Part I, from
the Damascus Affair to the First World War (1840-1914), deals with
new patterns of response to the persecution of Jews in Europe, Asia
and Africa under the impact of emancipation, nationalism and
antisemitism. Part II, World Wars and the Shadow of the Holocaust
(1914-1948), deals with the transitional period that brought hope
and bitter disillusion to Jews in Europe and the Middle East. Part
III, The Contemporary Period (1948 to the present), examines the
different manifestations of Jewish national solidarity that
developed in response to the Holocaust and the creation of the
State of Israel. These studies illuminate and evaluate the efforts
of Jews to defend and preserve communities separated by vast
distances and diverse cultural and political systems. By placing
these studies in an integrated historical and comparative
framework, Organizing Rescue provides a timely and unique
perspective for understanding national Jewish solidarity in the
modern period.
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