Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Saigon to Jerusalem PDF full book. Access full book title Saigon to Jerusalem by Eric Lee. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: Eric Lee Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Like so many Vietnam veterans, the Jewish Americans interviewed here returned to a country they could not understand, where they often were regarded as villains instead of heroes. Unlike most, these men had a second country--their ancestral home of Israel.This is an oral history of 18 Jewish Americans who moved to Israel after serving in Vietnam: their experiences growing up in America, their brushes with anti-Semitism, their experiences in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and then their return to the United States and subsequent move to Israel. A major focus is the role of their Vietnam experiences in their decision to emigrate.
Author: Eric Lee Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 216
Book Description
Like so many Vietnam veterans, the Jewish Americans interviewed here returned to a country they could not understand, where they often were regarded as villains instead of heroes. Unlike most, these men had a second country--their ancestral home of Israel.This is an oral history of 18 Jewish Americans who moved to Israel after serving in Vietnam: their experiences growing up in America, their brushes with anti-Semitism, their experiences in the jungles of Southeast Asia, and then their return to the United States and subsequent move to Israel. A major focus is the role of their Vietnam experiences in their decision to emigrate.
Author: Judith A. Klinghoffer Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349275026 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 235
Book Description
In 1967 Moscow created a Middle Eastern crisis in response to Washington's escalation in Vietnam. America's Asian focus had left her Atlantic flank vulnerable to Soviet penetration. Israel refused to plant her flag in Saigon, American rabbis led the peace movement and the President threatened to withdraw his support for Israel. The Palestinians embarked on a Vietnamese inspired 'people's war' and Moscow interpreted Israeli retaliation as support for US policy in Vietnam. The Six Day War turned Israel into a Soviet nuclear target and transformed some liberals into Neo-Conservatives.
Author: Jacob Abadi Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135768692 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 509
Book Description
Dr Abadi provides an overview of Israel's relations with Asian countries from 1948 until the present, and analyzes the political, social and economic factors in each country and the role that each played in the process of rapprochement with Israel.
Author: Shaul Mitelpunkt Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110842239X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 407
Book Description
Examines the changing meanings Americans invested in their country's intensifying relationship with Israel from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Author: Amy Kaplan Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674989929 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
An essential account of America’s most controversial alliance that reveals how the United States came to see Israel as an extension of itself, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays out in our own time. Our American Israel tells the story of how a Jewish state in the Middle East came to resonate profoundly with a broad range of Americans in the twentieth century. Beginning with debates about Zionism after World War II, Israel’s identity has been entangled with America’s belief in its own exceptional nature. Now, in the twenty-first century, Amy Kaplan challenges the associations underlying this special alliance. Through popular narratives expressed in news media, fiction, and film, a shared sense of identity emerged from the two nations’ histories as settler societies. Americans projected their own origin myths onto Israel: the biblical promised land, the open frontier, the refuge for immigrants, the revolt against colonialism. Israel assumed a mantle of moral authority, based on its image as an “invincible victim,” a nation of intrepid warriors and concentration camp survivors. This paradox persisted long after the Six-Day War, when the United States rallied behind a story of the Israeli David subduing the Arab Goliath. The image of the underdog shattered when Israel invaded Lebanon and Palestinians rose up against the occupation. Israel’s military was strongly censured around the world, including notes of dissent in the United States. Rather than a symbol of justice, Israel became a model of military strength and technological ingenuity. In America today, Israel’s political realities pose difficult challenges. Turning a critical eye on the turbulent history that bound the two nations together, Kaplan unearths the roots of present controversies that may well divide them in the future.
Author: Meron Medzini Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311124007X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 219
Book Description
Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 40,000 Jews living under its control. While there was anti-Semitism in Japan since the early 1920s, there was also philo-Semitism and great admiration for Jewish power, influence and achievements. Japan-Israel relations were very strained and tense from 1952 to the early 1990s due to Japan's dependence on Arab oil. But since 1990 the policy of Japan has changed radically and the country is now a close friend of Israel in East Asia. Meron Medzini compares and contrasts Israeli and Japanese society, foreign policy, and above all economic and technological ties. He analyzes the presence of Jews in Japan since the 1860s and the absence of any Jewish influence, power, and involvement in Japanese arts, media, academia, politics, labor unions, and industry.
Author: Eric Lee
Author: Eric Lee
Author: Judith A. Klinghoffer
Author: Jacob Abadi
Author: Shaul Mitelpunkt
Author: United States. Department of State
Author: Amy Kaplan
Author: Meron Medzini
Author: 
Author: United States. Department of State
Author: United States. Department of State