American Zionism

Contains reprints of documents (including letters, telegrams, excerpts from the Congressional Record, reports, and pamphlets) on American Jewish and Zionist history from the 19th century to 1968. In Vol. 1, "Cultivating an Awareness" (509 pp.), items 2, 14, and 27 relate to the persecution of Jews (e.g. the Damascus blood libel, the pogroms in Russia, and antisemitism in Europe and the Arab world), and Zionism as a solution. Vol. 8, "Mobilizing for the War Effort, 1940" (433 pp.) and Vol. 9, "A Jewish Commonwealth, 1942-1944" (410 pp.) cover the Holocaust period, emphasizing the urgency of establishing an independent Jewish state. Vol. 15, "Forging a New Relationship, 1948-1968" (886 pp.), includes document 41, "The Arab campaign against American Jews", published by the American Jewish Congress in 1956. Discusses Arab discrimination against boycott of American Jewish businesses, and anti-Jewish propaganda in the U.S. Document 47, "Calendar of Calamity: The Melancholy Record of State Department Policy in the Middle East", published by the Z.O.A. in 1956, is a chronology of State Department bias against Israel. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)