Three days in December
Jewish human rights between the United Nations and the middle east in 1948
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Loeffler (0000-0001-5079-090X, University of Virginia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 312-330 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Global History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0228 • E-ISSN: 1740-0236 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1740022821000322 |
| OpenAlex | W3209878898 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The twin birth of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Genocide Convention in 1948 have received enormous scholarly attention in recent years. Yet historians have largely ignored how these legal projects intersected with that year’s war in Israel/Palestine. In this article, I push these two stories back into a single frame by examining the year-long efforts of one early human rights organization, the World Jewish Congress, to advance rights-claims on behalf of Middle Eastern Jewish communities imperiled by the regional repercussions of the war. The WJC’s record of activities affords us a direct window into contemporaneous activist understandings of the ties between the Holocaust and the Nakba, human rights and genocide, and international law and politics. More broadly, it reveals the intrinsic limits of early human rights advocacy in an emerging global system exclusively structured around nation states
Archaeology · Convention · Declaration · Genocide · Human rights · International human rights law · Judaism · Linguistic rights · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Right to property · The Holocaust · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · International Law and Human Rights · Law
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |