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1948's Forgotten Soldiers?: The Shifting Reception of American Volunteers in Israel's War of Independence

Weiss, Amy

Israel studies (Bloomington, Ind.), 2020-03, Vol.25 (1), p.149-173 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Bloomington: Indiana University Press

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  • Título:
    1948's Forgotten Soldiers?: The Shifting Reception of American Volunteers in Israel's War of Independence
  • Autor: Weiss, Amy
  • Assuntos: Armed forces ; Autobiographies ; Ben-Gurion, David ; Illegality ; Jewish Americans ; Jewish people ; Jews ; Lazarus, Emma (1849-1887) ; Memoirs ; Military personnel ; Museums ; Narratives ; Remembrance ; Social acceptance ; Social aspects ; Soldiers ; Special Section: Israel and American Jewry ; Time ; Volunteers ; War
  • É parte de: Israel studies (Bloomington, Ind.), 2020-03, Vol.25 (1), p.149-173
  • Descrição: The article examines the shifting discourse associated with the participation of American volunteers in the nascent Israel Defense Forces. Although the volunteers were officially commended by the IDF for their contributions during the 1948 War of Independence and attempts were made to encourage them to remain indefinitely in Israel, those who returned home were offered few opportunities to commemorate their wartime experiences by the American Jewish community. The concerns of American Jews with their own integration and social acceptance in America during the late 1940s and 1950s complicated the remembrance initiative of Machal (acronym of Mitnadvei Hutz LaAretz, “volunteers from abroad”), all the more so, given the illegality of serving in the armed forces of a foreign country at the time. However, by the late twentieth-century American Jews had attained a greater sense of inclusion which facilitated their public embrace (and criticism) of Israel, and motivated them to explore the Machal narrative. American volunteers wrote memoirs, published correspondence, established museums, and collected questionnaires to document their contributions, demonstrating a unique form of American interest in Israel.
  • Editor: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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