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The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy.

Publication: American Jewish History
Publication Date: 01-DEC-07 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
The "Bergson Boys" and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy. By Judith Tydor Baumel. Translated from the Hebrew by Dena Ordan. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005. xxx + 331.

Judith Tydor Baumel, a historian at Bar Ilan University, presents a well-written and informative study of one of the most controversial movements in modern American Jewish history. The Committee for a Jewish Army, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, and the American League for a Free Palestine captured the imagination of some Americans while earning the hatred of almost the entire American Jewish leadership of the World War II era. A small delegation of emissaries of the Irgun Zeva'i Leumi established all these organizations. Historians...



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