International Jewish Humanitarianism in the Age of the Great War (Human Rights in History)
Cambridge University Press, 6/17/2021
EAN 9781108495028, ISBN10: 1108495028
Hardcover, 418 pages, 23.1 x 19.6 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
In 1914, seven million Jews across Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean were caught in the crossfire of warring empires in a disaster of stupendous, unprecedented proportions. In response, American Jews developed a new model of humanitarian relief for their suffering brethren abroad, wandering into American foreign policy as they navigated a wartime political landscape. The effort continued into peacetime, touching every interwar Jewish community in these troubled regions through long-term refugee, child welfare, public health, and poverty alleviation projects. Against the backdrop of war, revolution, and reconstruction, this is the story of American Jews who went abroad in solidarity to rescue and rebuild Jewish lives in Jewish homelands. As they constructed a new form of humanitarianism and re-drew the map of modern philanthropy, they rebuilt the Jewish Diaspora itself in the image of the modern social welfare state.
Preface
Terms, Acronyms, and Abbreviations
Introduction
1. War Sufferers
Moving Money in War
2. The Hungry
Establishing In-Kind Relief in the Field
3. Refugee
Solutions without Resolution
4. The Sick
Jewish Fitness through Jewish Health
5. Child
Welfare for a Contested Jewish Future
6. The Impoverished
Credit as Reconstruction
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.