LEADER 04530cam a2200565 i 4500001 296169 005 20240722080952.0 008 230325t20222022is b 000 0 eng d 035 (OCoLC)on1374023300 040 HUC |beng |erda |cHUC |dHUC |dOCLCF |dMBB |dEYM |dFUG |dOCL |dIL4J6 |dWEINB |dCLU |dOCLCO |dOCLCL |dOCLCQ |dLHM 019 135133475413530400521357035233 020 9789659297412 |q(pbk.) 020 9659297416 |q(pbk.) 043 n-us---a-is--- 050 4 D810.J4 |bM475 2022 090 DS126.3 |b.M468 2022 049 LHMA 100 1 Merlin, Samuel, |eauthor. 245 10 Without a mandate : |bthe story of the "Bergson Group" and its campaign for a Jewish army to save the Jewish people of Europe, and the establishment of a Hebrew republic in Palestine / |cS. Merlin ; with an introduction by Rafael Medoff ; Editor, Rebecca Kook ; Copy editor, Renate Schein. 264 1 Haifa : |bThe Herzl institute for the study of Zionism, University of Haifa, |c2022. 264 4 |c©2022 300 441 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 "The evolution of a delegation of the Irgun Zvai Leumi into the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation"--title page. 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 Introduction - Samuel Merlin, thinker and activist -- Part I: "Dos Yiddishe folk" -- The people (the Hebrew nation) -- Setting the stage for Hitler -- Hebrew liberation movement -- Part II: The Hebrew emissaries -- A sketch of the emissaries -- The American friends of a Jewish Palestine -- Innovations, a new approach and unprecedented methods -- The committee for a Jewish army -- A proclamation on the moral rights of the stateless and Palestinian Jews -- Part III: The Holocaust -- Could the Jews have been saved? -- The Bermuda conference -- A strange episode in the U.S. senate -- The emergency committee to save the Jewish people of Europe -- The struggle for a special agency -- Three protestants and one emancipated Jew -- The war refugee board -- Did the WRB live up to expectations? -- Part IV: Campaign to save the last two million Jews -- "Free ports" for human beings -- The campaign to save the Jews of Hungary -- Horthy announces his readiness to let all the Jews leave -- U.S. and Great Britain were avers (or recoiled from) to accept Horthy's offer -- Temporary shelters in Palestine -- The Eri Jabotinsky file -- The arrest and deportation of Aryeh Ben-Eliezer -- Negotiating with the enemy -- Retaliation: the proposal to use poison gas against the Germans -- Part V: Conclusion -- Reflections on the Holocaust. 520 "Without a Mandate" is Merlin's posthumously published account of the Bergson Group's campaigns for U.S. government action to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. It offers an insider's perspective, a chronicle of a battle by one of the combatants. As such, it is a vital historical document and contributes to our understanding of one of the most consequential eras in modern Jewish history. 610 20 Bergson Group. 600 10 Kook, Hillel, |d1915-2001. 610 20 Irgun tsevaʼi leʼumi. 650 0 World War, 1939-1945 |xJewish resistance. 650 0 Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 650 0 Jews |xPolitical activity |zUnited States. 650 0 Jewish politicians |zUnited States. 650 0 Jews |zUnited States |xPolitics and government |y20th century. 651 0 Israel |xHistory |y20th century. 650 0 Revisionist Zionism |zUnited States. 650 6 Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 |xMouvements de résistance juifs. |0(CaQQLa)201-0056533 650 6 Holocauste, 1939-1945. |0(CaQQLa)201-0011801 650 6 Juifs |0(CaQQLa)201-0061876 |xActivité politique |0(CaQQLa)201-0373907 |zÉtats-Unis. |0(CaQQLa)201-0407727 651 6 Israël |0(CaQQLa)201-0045157 |xHistoire |0(CaQQLa)201-0045157 |y20e siècle. |0(CaQQLa)201-0373677 650 6 Sionisme révisionniste |0(CaQQLa)201-0139211 |zÉtats-Unis. |0(CaQQLa)201-0407727 700 1 Medoff, Rafael, |d1959- |ewriter of introduction. |1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpv4kh6cHvtbYrbfcvfv3 700 1 Kook, Rebecca B., |d1959- |eeditor. |1https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjMqytCfwjHWdFTPKHMyr3 700 1 Schein, Renate, |eeditor. 710 2 Universiṭat Ḥefah. |bHerzl Institute for the Study of Zionism. 751 Haifa (Israel) |eplace of publication 852 0 |bscstacks |hDS126.3 |i.M468 2022