The Bergson Boys and the Origins of Contemporary Zionist Militancy

by Judith Tydor Baumel

During and shortly after the Second World War, six young men-emissaries of the revisionist-Zionist "Irgun" military movement in Palestine revolutionized the American Jewish and Zionist scene. Judith Tydor Baumel provides the complete story of the role the Bergson group played in raising American public consciousness of Jewish and Zionist concerns. After founding a series of pro-Zionist and rescue organizations, they initiated a new form of fundraising...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815630638
• ISBN13: 9780815630630
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"