Churchill and the Jews
"Using primarily public archives, and Churchill's own published speeches and writings, Professor Cohen offers a new assessment of the great statesman's fluctuating policies towards the Jews and Zionism, over the span of a long political career. He concludes that Churchill never subscribed to the Zionists' ideology, but supported their cause, sporadically, for so long as he judged it to serve British interests. Likewise, various plans for the rescue of European Jewry during World War Two were subordinated to Churchill's overriding goal of winning the war and securing the peace. The Holocaust was regarded as a purely 'Jewish affair' - and its ramifications for civilisation as a whole were not appreciated."--Jacket
History
xxi, 421 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
9780714684505, 9780714632544, 0714684503, 0714632546
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1. Churchill the Man 2. The Jewish Problem 3. The Middle East Imbroglio, 1919-1921 4. Crisis in Palestine, 1921 5. The 1922 White Paper 6. Churchill and Palestine, 1924-1939 7. World War Two 8. Churchill and the Holocaust Epilogue: Churchill in Opposition, 1945-1948. Conclusion