Chapter 2: Stephen Wise, Nahum Goldmann, and the Question of Palestine in 1940s America
Year: 2014

The issue of the rescue of European Jews was not the only one to concern the Jewish public in the United States during the Holocaust period and the early postwar years. A political and public campaign was being waged in the American arena on behalf of the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine as part of the international arrangements to be put in place after World War II. The endeavor to promote the idea of founding the Jewish state was conducted during the war years alongside engagement