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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Richman, Rick, 1945-     Subjects     Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 -- Travel -- United States.     Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940 -- Travel -- United States.     Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 -- Travel -- United States.     Zionists -- Travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Jews -- History, Military.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Richman, Rick, 1945-       by title:      Racing against histo...       by call number:      940.5412 R532r     Search the Web     Richman, Rick, 1945-     Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 -- Travel -- United States.     Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940 -- Travel -- United States.     Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 -- Travel -- United States.     Zionists -- Travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Jews -- History, Military.       MARC Display

Racing against history : the 1940 campaign for a Jewish army to fight Hitler / Rick Richman. by Richman, Rick, 1945- Encounter Books, 2018. Call #: 940.5412 R532r Subjects Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952 -- Travel -- United States.   Jabotinsky, Vladimir, 1880-1940 -- Travel -- United States.   Ben-Gurion, David, 1886-1973 -- Travel -- United States.   Zionists -- Travel -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Jews -- History, Military. ISBN:  9781594039744 (hc.) Edition:  First American edition. Description:  xvi, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-237) and index. Contents:  Introduction: the world in 1940 -- Chaim Weizmann: January--March 1940 -- Vladimir Jabotinsky: March--August 1940 -- David Ben-Gurion: September 1940--January 1941 -- Epilogue : 1948. Summary:  Three powerful personalities who sought in 1940 to turn the tide of history. David Ben-Gurion, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and Chaim Weizmann - the leaders of the left, right, and center of Zionism - undertook separate missions that year to America, then frozen in isolationism, to seek support for a Jewish army to fight Hitler. Their efforts were at once heroic and tragic. The book presents a portrait of three historic figures and the American Jewish community at the beginning of the most consequential decade in modern Jewish history and a cautionary tale about divisions within the Jewish community at a time of American isolationism. The book sheds new light on Zionism in America and the history of World War II and it aims to stimulate discussion about the evolving relationship between Israel and American Jews, as the Jewish State approaches its 70th anniversary under the continuing threat of annihilation. Author Rick Richman graduated from Harvard College and New York University Law School. He founded the Jewish Current Issues blog in 2003. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 940.5412 R532r Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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