Palestine Statehood Committee records, 1939-1949.

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Book
Language
English
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Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, a Cengage Company, 2023.
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The Palestine Statehood Committee Records, 1939-1949, "Concerning the campaigns for a Jewish Army -- to save the Jewish people of Europe and the establishment of a Hebrew Republic in Palestine" consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, advertisements, and clippings related to five committees active in the United States from 1939 to 1949: the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine, the Committee for an Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, the American League for a Free Palestine, and the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation. Among these papers are selected materials spanning the years 1939-1942 on the activities of similar groups in Great Britain and France: the British League for a Free Palestine, and the Ligue francaise pour une Palestine libre. The Committee's goals included the creation of an independent Jewish army to fight the Axis powers, the rescue and repatriation of European Jews in Palestine, and the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in an independent Palestine. The groups were sympathetic to the Revisionist Zionist movement and the Irgun Zvai Leumi and included the American Friends of a Jewish Palestine, the Committee for an Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, the American League for a Free Palestine, and the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation. Individuals involved in these committees include Peter H. Bergson, Eri Jabotinsky, Samuel Merlin and Arieh Ben Eliezer. Correspondents include religious leaders, politicians and others interested in the problem of the Jews and Palestine.
Notes
  • Date range of documents: 1939-1949.
  • Reproduction of the originals from Yale University Libraries.
Contents
  • Subcollections: Series I: General Correspondence
  • Series II: Public Statements, Press Releases, Reports, and Clippings
  • Series III: Subject Files
  • Series IV: the Answer, Advertisements, and Clippings
  • Series V: Public Record Office. Foreign Office Documents.
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1390453058
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