A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789-1939

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - 944 síður
The 20th century has seen both the greatest triumph of Jewish history and its greatest tragedy: the birth of the nation of Israel, and the state-sponsored genocide of the Holocaust. This study examines the role played by the Jews themselves, across the whole of Europe, during the century and a half leading up to these events.
 

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the modalities
12
Consensus and conformism
24
PROPOSALS
31
DISJUNCTIONS
99
QUESTIONS FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN
166
the German model
248
MOVEMENT
283
Poverty
291
The nationstate as grindstone
761
Ancient frictions in the new Poland
774
Polish equivocation Jewish ambivalence
798
Germany takes the lead
800
Machtergreifung
804
Towards extrusion
809
The Jews of Germany crushed
823
A community destroyed
827

AUTOEMANCIPATION?
346
CRYSTALLIZATION
476
WAR
647
The Jewish increment
651
The Palestine Idea
664
A neutral Zionism belligerent Zionists
675
The Palestine Idea revived
688
Selfdetermination
692
PEACE
703
The great slaughter
715
Who speaks for the Jews?
728
At the Peace Conference
739
CAPTIVITY
755
DENOUEMENT
837
who will lead them where will they be led?
841
A World Jewish Congress
847
Loyalties and principles
856
The purposes of Zionism the needs of the Jews
867
Pragmatism and honour
875
The final rejection
881
Into the night
890
EPILOGUE
897
BIBLIOGRAPHY
899
GLOSSARY
918
INDEX
921
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From 1977 to his retirement in 1995, David Vital was Nahum Goldmann Professor of Diplomacy at Tel-Aviv University.

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