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Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Jews --- Zionism --- Rescue --- Politics and government --- History --- World Jewish Congress --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Rescue. --- Political activity --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Rescue of Jews, 1939-1945 --- Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) --- Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Holocaust, Nazi --- Ḥurban (1939-1945) --- Ḥurbn (1939-1945) --- Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) --- Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) --- Nazi Holocaust --- Nazi persecution of Jews --- Shoʾah (1939-1945) --- Rescue, 1939-1945 --- Nazi persecution --- Congrès juif mondial --- Jüdischer Weltkongress --- Jewish World Congress --- Congresso mondiale ebraico --- Congresul Mondial Evreesc --- Yidisher ṿelṭ-ḳongres --- CJM --- Congreso Judío Mundial --- Ḳongres ha-Yehudi ha-ʻolami --- Vsemirnyĭ evreĭskiĭ kongress --- WJC --- יידישער וועלט־כאנגרעס --- יידישער וועלט־קאנגרעס. --- יידישער וועלט-קאנגרעס --- יידישער װעלט־קאנגרעס --- קונגרס היהודי העולמי --- World Jewish Congress. --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust --- Genocide --- Kindertransports (Rescue operations) --- Persecutions --- Atrocities --- Jewish resistance --- Political activity. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945). --- Holocaust. --- Jewish Organizations. --- Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) --- Nazi persecution (1939-1945)