Preface Introduction 1 Britain and Zionism: the Domestic Context 2 World War One: How Britain assumes the Palestine Mandate 3 Palestine and the Near East, 1919-1923 4 The Military Administration, 1918-1920 5 Colonial Palestine 6 Re-defining Policy in Palestine 7 1923: The Balfour Declaration Challenged 8 Paying for Empire in the 1920s 9 The Yishuv Economy in the 1920s 10 The Unravelling of the Mandate, 1929-31 11 The Arab Rebellion I: April-October 1936 12 The Arab Rebellion II: July 1937-39 13 Appeasement in the Middle East, 1937-39 14 World War Two: The Jews 15 The Allies, the Zionists and the Holocaust 16 World War Two: The British and the Arabs 17 The Arabs and Nazi Germany 18 The Mufti of Jerusalem in Berlin: 1941-1945 19 Why the British Left 20 The British Lose Control 21 Conclusion
Michael Joseph Cohen was born in England, and earned his Ph.D. under the late Elie Kedourie at the London School of Economics. He is Professor Emeritus in History at Bar-Ilan University. He has published widely on the Palestine Mandate and the establishment of the state of Israel.
Michael Cohen has written a comprehensive and fair-minded account
of the Palestine mandate from the antecedents of the Balfour
declaration in 1917 to the consequences of the founding of the
state of Israel in 1948. The dominant themes are the contradictions
of British rule and the military as well as the demographic aims of
the Zionists to ‘make Palestine as Jewish as England was English’.
His book will be used as a work of reference as well as a balanced
judgment from all angles, Arab and American as well as British and
Zionist. Readers will be especially interested in his
interpretation of anti-Semitism, Arab collaboration with the Nazis,
and the Holocaust in relation to the creation of the Jewish state.
His command of archival and secondary sources establishes Britain’s
Moment in Palestine as an essential work of research and
interpretation.-- Professor Wm. Roger Louis holds the Kerr Chair of
English History and Culture at the University of Texas, Austin, and
is editor-in-chief of The Oxford History of the British
EmpireSuperbly researched and meticulously written, this book is
the result of extensive research on the history of the Palestine
mandate from the Balfour Declaration (1917) to the establishment of
the state of Israel (1948). Cohen (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel), a
prominent historian of the Middle East, examines this complex
history with an impressive command of archival sources. In nearly
500 pages, he provides an extensive account about Britain’s
changing policy in Palestine and how it contributed to the
Arab-Zionist conflict. Readers will find discussions on a wide
range of subjects, such as Britain’s early commitment to Zionism,
the Holocaust, and the establishment of the state of Israel; the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his relations with the Nazis; the Arab
rebellions; Benito Mussolini’s policy in Palestine; and much more.
A must read for students and scholars of British imperialism in the
Middle East between the two war worlds. Summing Up: Essential. Most
levels/libraries.--B. Rahimi, University of California San
DiegoCHOICE, April 2015
Michael Cohen has written a comprehensive and fair-minded account
of the Palestine mandate from the antecedents of the Balfour
declaration in 1917 to the consequences of the founding of the
state of Israel in 1948. The dominant themes are the contradictions
of British rule and the military as well as the demographic aims of
the Zionists to ‘make Palestine as Jewish as England was English’.
His book will be used as a work of reference as well as a balanced
judgment from all angles, Arab and American as well as British and
Zionist. Readers will be especially interested in his
interpretation of anti-Semitism, Arab collaboration with the Nazis,
and the Holocaust in relation to the creation of the Jewish state.
His command of archival and secondary sources establishes Britain’s
Moment in Palestine as an essential work of research and
interpretation.-- Professor Wm. Roger Louis holds the Kerr Chair of
English History and Culture at the University of Texas, Austin, and
is editor-in-chief of The Oxford History of the British
EmpireSuperbly researched and meticulously written, this book is
the result of extensive research on the history of the Palestine
mandate from the Balfour Declaration (1917) to the establishment of
the state of Israel (1948). Cohen (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel), a
prominent historian of the Middle East, examines this complex
history with an impressive command of archival sources. In nearly
500 pages, he provides an extensive account about Britain’s
changing policy in Palestine and how it contributed to the
Arab-Zionist conflict. Readers will find discussions on a wide
range of subjects, such as Britain’s early commitment to Zionism,
the Holocaust, and the establishment of the state of Israel; the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his relations with the Nazis; the Arab
rebellions; Benito Mussolini’s policy in Palestine; and much more.
A must read for students and scholars of British imperialism in the
Middle East between the two war worlds. Summing Up: Essential. Most
levels/libraries.--B. Rahimi, University of California San
DiegoCHOICE, April 2015
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