Jewish internationalism and human rights after the Holocaust

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Jewish internationalism and human rights after the Holocaust

Statement of responsibility

Nathan A Kurz, Birkbeck College, University of London

Creator

• Kurz, Nathan A., 1983-

Subject

• Human rights -- History -- 20th century
• Human rights advocacy
• International law -- Religious aspects | Judaism
• Israel and the diaspora
• Jews -- History -- 20th century
• Antisemitsm -- History -- 20th Century

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

Member of

• Human rights in history

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Human rights in history
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks