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Informationen zum Autor Pauline Peretz Klappentext Peretz uses mobilization studies to explain a succession of objectives on the part of Israel and the stages in which it mobilized American Jews. Peretz attempts to reintroduce Israel as the missing, yet absolutely decisive actor in the history of the American movement to help Soviet Jews emigrate in difficult circumstances. Zusammenfassung Peretz uses mobilization studies to explain a succession of objectives on the part of Israel and the stages in which it mobilized American Jews. Peretz attempts to reintroduce Israel as the missing, yet absolutely decisive actor in the history of the American movement to help Soviet Jews emigrate in difficult circumstances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Israel, Instigator of Mobilization within the Diaspora, 1953–63 1 The Jewish Community Reaches Political Maturity 2 Mobilization in the Postwar Years 3 An American Campaign Orchestrated by Israel,1955–63 Part II: From Community Mobilization to Humanitarian Movement, 1964–71 4 An American Movement in Support of the Rights of Soviet Jewry, 1964–66 5 The Six-Day War: A Turning Point for the American Jewish Community, 1967–71 Part III: The Emigration of Soviet Jewry: A Central Issue in Soviet-American Relations, 1972-Late 1980s 6 The Emigration of Soviet Jewry: An Obstacle to Detente, 1972–74 193 7 Jewish Rights or Human Rights in the Soviet Union? 1975–79 8 Jewish Emigration as a Barometer of US-Soviet Relations in the 1980s Conclusion Acknowledgments Appendix Chronology List of Acronyms Select Bibliography Index
