Research Catalog

Title

De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews / Raymond Aron ; with new introduction by Michael Curtis

Author

Aron, Raymond, 1905-1983

Publication

New Brunswick, NJ : Transaction Publishers, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxxiv, 160 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The lives of Raymond Aron and Charles de Gaulle intersected at significant moments in twentieth-century history, though they differed on many issues during World War II and over the subsequent decades. Aron, for example, distinguished between the attitude and responsibility of the Vichy government and the French Nazi collaborators in Paris, unlike de Gaulle, who regarded anyone who obeyed Marshal Petain as a traitor. In the postwar period, Aron differed from de Gaulle on a number of issues, including Algeria. But the strongest direct criticism by Aron of de Gaulle's language and policy resulted after a 1967 press conference, where he referred to Jews as "an elite people, self-assured and domineering."" "This comment led Aron to write De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews. Aron saw de Gaulle conflating the issues of Israel and that of French Jews, and the question of Israeli policy in 1967 and other times. He stressed the right of individuals to be, at the same time, French and Jewish, and raised the question of whether de Gaulle intended to deliver a message to the Jews in the Diaspora or simply warned to attack those in Israel. While Aron did not accuse de Gaulle of anti-Semitism, he felt that for the first time in postwar Europe, a leader had used language that lent respectability to anti-Semitism and made it legitimate."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Gaulle, Israël et les juifs. English

Alternative Title

Gaulle, Israël et les juifs.

Subject

• Gaulle, Charles de, 1890-1970
• 1967
• Israel-Arab War, 1967 > Influence
• Israel and the diaspora

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The press conference -- The age of suspicion -- Sound of arms in the Near East -- Russia versus America -- The hour of decision -- Face to face with tragedy -- How the war became inevitable -- The tragic ironies of history -- Local crisis or world crisis? -- Between cabinets -- Arms and peace -- Why? -- Israel between war and peace -- A diplomacy in search of a policy -- Will the Arabs agree to negotiate? -- Intervention of the powers? -- The UN in the Middle East crisis -- The UN and the Middle East crisis -- The Jews -- The Jews and the state of Israel.

ISBN

0765809257 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004043977

OCLC

• 54073103
• SCSB-10807195

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library