Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel - The Defeated Zionist

Klappentext In early February 1949, American Jewry's most popular and powerful leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963), had summarily resigned from all his official positions within the Zionist movement and had left New York for Cleveland, returning to his post as a Reform rabbi. Shiff's book discerns the various aspects of the striking turnabout in Silver's political fate, describing both the personal tragic story of a leader who was defeated by his own victory and the much broader intra-Zionist battle that erupted in full force immediately after the founding of Israel.

About the author

Ofer Shiff is professor of Jewish history at Ben-Gurion University, where he served as director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Studies of Israel and Zionism from 2001 to 2004. He is the author of Survival through Integration: American Reform Jewish Universalism and the Holocaust and is the editor of the Hebrew periodical Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Studies in Israeli and Modern Jewish Society), Thematic Series.

Product details

• Authors: Ofer Shiff
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.05.2014
• EAN: 9780815610359
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-1035-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Modern Jewish History; Modern Jewish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas