The Downfall of Abba Hillel Silver and the Foundation of Israel

by Ofer Shiff

In early February 1949 American Jewry's most popular and powerful leader, Abba Hillel Silver (1893-1963), had summarily resigned from all his official positions within the Zionist movement and had left New York for
Cleveland, returning to his post as a Reform rabbi. In the immediate years prior to his resignation, during the second half of the 1940s, Silver was the most outspoken proponent of the founding of a sovereign Jewish state. He was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815610351
• ISBN13: 9780815610359
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"