Hovory s Janem Masarykem

Dagan first met Jan Masaryk, the then Czech ambassador to London, immediately after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939, when he enlisted Masaryk's help in the rescue of Czech Jews. Dagan worked closely with Masaryk while he was Foreign Minister of the Czech government-in-exile and in the postwar regime in Prague, until Masaryk's violent death after the communist takeover in 1948. During these years Dagan recorded Masaryk's conversations on various political topics. Pp. 101-111, "Zur Judenfrage", shows Masaryk's sympathy for Jews and his strong condemnation of antisemitism and of Jewish self-hatred. However, in view of his doubts that Jews could ever be fully integrated in the Diaspora, Masaryk supported Zionism. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)