Zohar Segev
Biographic Data
| ID | 1459672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zohar Segev |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zohar |
| FAMILY NAME | Segev |
| SIGNATURE | SEGEV Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prologue to Annihilation
Journal Article Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich Stephen H. Norwood Get access Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H Norwood (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021), 360 pp., hardcover $90.00, paperback $40.00, ebook $39.99. Zohar Segev Zohar Segev University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Email: [email protected] Search for othe…
Cooperation, Integration, and Assimilation
The growing power of the USA, of US Jewry, and of the US Zionist movement was a major factor that impacted Zionist policy during the 1940s. During this period, US Zionists sought to bring their influence to bear on the fundamental problems that the Zionist movement confronted during the war and thereafter. The Arab issue featured prominently in these efforts. While engaging with the questions of the relations between the Jews and the Arabs living…
Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz
The first two transports of Hungarian Jews arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. The extermination camp was located within range of the Allies' bomber aircraft, leading to demands to bomb the site. The fact that the extermination camp was never bombed, along with the dramatic impact of the murder of Hungary's Jews during the final stages of World War II, has turned the failure to bomb Auschwitz-Birkenau into a symbol of the powerlessness of …
Immigration, Politics and Democracy
During the 1930s, the leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) tried to turn the question of European Jews into an international political issue that transcended traditional philanthropic assistance to Jews in need. This article presents examples of the broad political activities that demonstrate the desire of the WJC's founders to deviate from the patterns of conventional philanthropic activity traditionally adopted by American Jewish organ…
The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of …
Remembering and Rebuilding
In this essay I expand on the role of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in the 1940s and 1950s. Its mode of operation during the two decades that followed World War II was markedly different from those that characterized other sections of American Jewry. What set the WJC apart from other Jewish organizations was that its leaders sought not merely to institutionalize the relationship between Israel and American Jewry, but involved themselves in the …
Myth and reality, denial and concealment
This article examines how the Jewish vote was brought to bear in the presidential elections of 1944 and in the mid-term elections of 194. It also reveals the essential difficulties that American Zionist leaders faced in activating the Jewish vote, and their efforts to cope with the complex challenges of ethnic politics in the US of the 1940s. Documents of American Zionist leaders at the time show that the political use of the Jewish vote, so simp…
Universalism, ethnic identity and divided nationality
Among the most significant events in American Zionism between 1938 and 1948 was the rise of Abba Hillel Silver to the leadership of American Jewry in the late 1940s. A close reading shows that throughout his public career in general, and in relation to the establishment of Israel in particular, Silver sought, in theory and in practice, to enlarge the concept of Israeli sovereignty on one hand and to create a theoretical and practical basis for th…
Between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
This article examines American Zionist leaders' positions on the Jerusalem issue, taking into consideration that from the 1920s until 1948, they acted within the Zionist movement as an independent political force that sought to play an active role in shaping the Yishuv and the State of Israel according to their own worldview. Their position on Jerusalem included recognition of its significance in Jewish history and the necessity of consolidating …
European Zionism in the United States
The emergence of Theodor Herzl as a Zionist leader and the creation of the Zionist movement occurred at the same time as the large Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States, starting after 1881. Those millions arriving in New York produced one of the most significant demographic changes in modern Jewish history. Although Herzl was aware of this and appointed Jacob De Haas as his American representative, he did not pay special at…
Struggle for cooperation and integration
From the late 1930s, American Jewry grew in prominence within the international Jewish framework and the Zionist movement. This was a natural consequence of the rising importance of the United States with its increased involvement in the Middle East, and the crisis of European Jewry that reached its tragic climax in the Holocaust. An examination of political events in the Zionist movement in Palestine and in the international arena reveals the in…
Remembering and Rebuilding
In this essay I expand on the role of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in the 1940s and 1950s. Its mode of operation during the two decades that followed World War II was markedly different from those that characterized other sections of American Jewry. What set the WJC apart from other Jewish organizations was that its leaders sought not merely to institutionalize the relationship between Israel and American Jewry, but involved themselves in the …
European Zionism in the United States
The emergence of Theodor Herzl as a Zionist leader and the creation of the Zionist movement occurred at the same time as the large Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States, starting after 1881. Those millions arriving in New York produced one of the most significant demographic changes in modern Jewish history. Although Herzl was aware of this and appointed Jacob De Haas as his American representative, he did not pay special at…
European Zionism in the United States
The emergence of Theodor Herzl as a Zionist leader and the creation of the Zionist movement occurred at the same time as the large Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe to the United States, starting after 1881. Those millions arriving in New York produced one of the most significant demographic changes in modern Jewish history. Although Herzl was aware of this and appointed Jacob De Haas as his American representative, he did not pay special at…
Struggle for cooperation and integration
From the late 1930s, American Jewry grew in prominence within the international Jewish framework and the Zionist movement. This was a natural consequence of the rising importance of the United States with its increased involvement in the Middle East, and the crisis of European Jewry that reached its tragic climax in the Holocaust. An examination of political events in the Zionist movement in Palestine and in the international arena reveals the in…
Between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
This article examines American Zionist leaders' positions on the Jerusalem issue, taking into consideration that from the 1920s until 1948, they acted within the Zionist movement as an independent political force that sought to play an active role in shaping the Yishuv and the State of Israel according to their own worldview. Their position on Jerusalem included recognition of its significance in Jewish history and the necessity of consolidating …
Universalism, ethnic identity and divided nationality
Among the most significant events in American Zionism between 1938 and 1948 was the rise of Abba Hillel Silver to the leadership of American Jewry in the late 1940s. A close reading shows that throughout his public career in general, and in relation to the establishment of Israel in particular, Silver sought, in theory and in practice, to enlarge the concept of Israeli sovereignty on one hand and to create a theoretical and practical basis for th…
The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust
Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of …
Remembering and Rebuilding
In this essay I expand on the role of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in the 1940s and 1950s. Its mode of operation during the two decades that followed World War II was markedly different from those that characterized other sections of American Jewry. What set the WJC apart from other Jewish organizations was that its leaders sought not merely to institutionalize the relationship between Israel and American Jewry, but involved themselves in the …
Myth and reality, denial and concealment
This article examines how the Jewish vote was brought to bear in the presidential elections of 1944 and in the mid-term elections of 194. It also reveals the essential difficulties that American Zionist leaders faced in activating the Jewish vote, and their efforts to cope with the complex challenges of ethnic politics in the US of the 1940s. Documents of American Zionist leaders at the time show that the political use of the Jewish vote, so simp…
Immigration, Politics and Democracy
During the 1930s, the leadership of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) tried to turn the question of European Jews into an international political issue that transcended traditional philanthropic assistance to Jews in need. This article presents examples of the broad political activities that demonstrate the desire of the WJC's founders to deviate from the patterns of conventional philanthropic activity traditionally adopted by American Jewish organ…
Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz
The first two transports of Hungarian Jews arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. The extermination camp was located within range of the Allies' bomber aircraft, leading to demands to bomb the site. The fact that the extermination camp was never bombed, along with the dramatic impact of the murder of Hungary's Jews during the final stages of World War II, has turned the failure to bomb Auschwitz-Birkenau into a symbol of the powerlessness of …
Prologue to Annihilation
Journal Article Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich Stephen H. Norwood Get access Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H Norwood (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2021), 360 pp., hardcover $90.00, paperback $40.00, ebook $39.99. Zohar Segev Zohar Segev University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Email: [email protected] Search for othe…
Cooperation, Integration, and Assimilation
The growing power of the USA, of US Jewry, and of the US Zionist movement was a major factor that impacted Zionist policy during the 1940s. During this period, US Zionists sought to bring their influence to bear on the fundamental problems that the Zionist movement confronted during the war and thereafter. The Arab issue featured prominently in these efforts. While engaging with the questions of the relations between the Jews and the Arabs living…
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