Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century

James Loeffler

ISBN 10: 0300217242 / ISBN 13: 9780300217247

Published by Yale University Press, 2018

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Light wear, firm binding. Signed by the author on the title page, with no inscription. Pages otherwise unmarked, endpapers too. Not ex-library, no stickers. Ships in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rooted Cosmopolitans: Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300217242
• ISBN 13: 9780300217247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 3 pounds
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists
 
The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remain tied together in the ongoing debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, global antisemitism, and American foreign policy. Yet the surprising connections between Zionism and the origins of international human rights are completely unknown today.
 
In this riveting account, James Loeffler explores this controversial history through the stories of five remarkable Jewish founders of international human rights, following them from the prewar shtetls of eastern Europe to the postwar United Nations, a journey that includes the Nuremberg and Eichmann trials, the founding of Amnesty International, and the UN resolution of 1975 labeling Zionism as racism. The result is a book that challenges long-held assumptions about the history of human rights and offers a startlingly new perspective on the roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

About the Author

James Loeffler is Jay Berkowitz Professor of Jewish History at the University of Virginia and former Robert A. Savitt Fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.