Churchill and the Jews

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Psychology Press, 1985 - 388 páginas
Discusses the attitudes and fluctuating policies of Winston Churchill towards the Jews and Zionism. Churchill attacked the 1905 Aliens Act, designed to restrict Jewish immigration to Britain. However, he may have been motivated partly by opportunism, as his Manchester constituency contained a high proportion of Jewish voters. He was not above exploiting antisemitism in an attack on Sir Marcus Samuel in 1914, accusing him of extorting high prices from the British Admiralty. Churchill was affected by "Jewish conspiracy" theories, and tended to accept the stereotype of the Jews' immense wealth and influence. Paradoxically, this may have played a role in his sympathy for Zionism. Churchill's supposed friendship with the Jews did not find expression in substantive actions on their behalf during the 1930s and World War II.
 

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The Middle East Imbroglio 19191921
58
Crisis in Palestine 1921
85
The 1922 White Paper
122
Churchill and Palestine 19241939
149
World War Two
185
Churchill and the Holocaust
261
Churchill in Opposition 19451948
306
Conclusion
323
Notes
357
Select Bibliography to the Second Edition
403
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Michael J. Cohen holds the Lazarus Philips Chair of History at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

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