Militant Zionism in America: The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926 - 1948 ((Judaic Studies Series)
This in-depth look at a controversial faction of American Zionism fills a void in the story of American Zionism--and in the story of American Judaism.\ This book recounts the fascinating and little-known story of the militant American Zionists who lobbied Congress, rallied American public opinion, and influenced British-American relations in their campaign for Jewish statehood in the 1930s and 1940s. Although these activists have been dismissed as fanatics who fragmented the American Zionist...
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Militant Zionism in America recounts the fascinating and little-known story of the activists who formed a controversial faction of American Jewry during the 1930s and 1940s. These militants - whose leaders included an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and several future members of the Israeli parliament - bought newspaper advertisements all over the country, actively lobbied Congress, made valuable alliances in Washington, staged dramatic protest rallies, and smuggled guns to the forces fighting in Palestine to establish the state of Israel.
Acknowledgments1Planting the Seeds of Militant Zionism in America12Revisionist Zionism Takes Root in America123Militant Zionism as a Response to Arab Terror and Nazism284Jabotinsky's Return to America455"Words Are the Most Effective Means of Political Warfare"736Wooing the Republicans1027A Powerful New Alliance1318A Flag Is Born1489The Guerrilla Rabbi16410Explaining the Jewish Revolt to America17111Guns for Zion20112Afterword: Bringing the Jewish Tragedy to the Fore212Notes221Selected Bibliography267Index279
\ From the Publisher"Militant Zionism in America has the freshness and immediacy of the archival sources and interviews that massively support its argument; and it adds another cubit to the stature of one of our preeminent historians of Zionism." --Middle East Quarterly\ \ \
