Refugees, human rights, and realpolitik : the clandestine immigration of Jewish refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948

Refugees, human rights, and realpolitik : the clandestine immigration of Jewish refugees from Italy to Palestine, 1945-1948 / Daphna Sharfman.

This book presents a multidimensional case study of international human rights in the immediate post-Second World War period, and the way in which complex refugee problems created by the war were often in direct competition with strategic interests and national sovereignty. The case study is the cla...

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Main Author: Sharfman, Dafnah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2019.
Series:Routledge studies in modern European history ; 64.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Jews > Italy > History > 20th century.
Jewish refugees > Italy > History > 20th century.
Jewish refugees > Government policy > Italy.
Zionism > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > Middle East > Israel.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
HISTORY > Jewish.
Emigration and immigration
Emigration and immigration > Government policy
Ethnic relations
Jewish refugees
Jewish refugees > Government policy
Jews
Zionism
Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > Government policy > History > 20th century.
Palestine > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Italy > Ethnic relations.
Great Britain
Italy
Middle East > Palestine
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Refugees in Europe, 1920-1948
  • Human rights: a "window of opportunity"?
  • Jewish refugees: the long way from the camps to Palestine
  • Political developments: the British, the Americans, the Zionists, and the Palestine question
  • British immigration policy
  • Italy and the Allies, 1943-1948
  • Italy and the Jews: the Fascist burden and the war time rescue
  • Jewish refugees in Italy
  • Britain and Italy: politics and pressures
  • The Italians and the Zionists, the clandestine cooperation and the La Spezia affair
  • Britain and the Jewish refugees: resistance and human rights
  • Refugees as international actors or pawns.

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