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Truman Shelves UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE RISING SUN Japan and the Jews During the Holocaust Era by Meron Medzini Although Japan was a member of the Axis Alliance, its leaders informed Nazi Germany that their attitude toward the Jews was very different from that of the Nazi regime. Virtually all of the 40,000 Jews under Japanese occupation in World War II survived, unlike their brethren in Europe. The book traces the evolution of Japan's policy toward Jews from the start of the 20th century and explains why Japan ignored repeated German demands to be involved in the "final solution." GOLDA MEIR A Political Biography by Meron Medzini For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman and a great leader with a magnetic personality: a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity, but failed in the top job - that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. FRENCH COLONIAL DAKAR The Morphogeneseis of an African Regional Capital by Liora Bigon This book looks at the planning, cultural and architectural endeavors that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. Part of the burgeoning field of studying the extra-European planning history of Europe, this book is a pioneer in attesting to the connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation, association, and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa. PLACE NAMES IN AFRICA Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories by Liora Bigon This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It traces and analyzes place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with considerable attention to both the pre-colonial and postcolonial situations. By combining in-depth area studies research with colonial history, planning history and geography, the author intends to show that culture matters in research on place names. BACK TO NOWHERE Morocco Revisited by Raphael Israeli This volume sums up the tribulations of Morocco’s considerable Jewish community as it was rejected by the country’s Muslim culture in the 1950s and 1960s, resulting in massive immigration to Israel. The fate of Moroccan Jewry is told through the private experiences of a young Jewish boy growing up amid these difficulties, and emigrating to fledgling Israel, to be followed by his entire family. 26 TRUMAN NEWSLETTER 2017
New Books by Truman Scholars THE DEATH CAMPS OF CROATIA Visions and Revisions, 1941-1945 by Raphael Israeli Anti-Semitism was widespread and deeply rooted throughout Yugoslavia during World War II. The author traces the circumstances and historical context in which the pro-Nazi Ustasha state, encompassing Croatia and Bosnia, erected the Jadovno and Jasenovac death camps. This volume distills fact and historical record from accusation and grievance without passing judgment, but acknowledges the evil inflicted by all sides upon the Jewish minority in their midst. OLD HISTORIANS, NEW HISTORIANS, NO HISTORIANS by Raphael Israeli This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties in the Middle East conflict, focusing on 1948 when it all began. The book encompasses a wide range of controversial topics, such as an evaluation of the 1948 war, its morality and its main reverberations - seven decades of continuing conflict, the aggravation of the Palestinian minority in Israel, and the essence of what history means. “PISCES” OUT OF MOROCCO AND THE SAGA OF THE CLANDESTINE JEWISH EXODUS by Raphael Israeli This is the partly-autobiographical saga of the underground Jewish emigration from Morocco, which placed hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews on illegal ships to escape persecution under Islam. Facing stormy seas and authorities forbidding their emigration, the Jews risked their lives for the dream of reaching the shores of nascent Israel. In one of those attempts, the ship "Pisces" sank off the coast of Morocco, taking with it 45 souls, including entire families. CHRISTIANOPHOBIA The Persecution of Christians Under Islam Edited by Raphael Israeli As chaos, war, and vengeance create havoc in the Muslim world, Muslim radicals have been venting their frustrations on the minorities among them. Most of these are Christian - Chaldeans in Iraq, Orthodox denominations in Turkey, Catholics in Indonesia and Malaysia and isolated Christian communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Related to this vast and escalating phenomenon has been the violent activity of some within the Muslim minorities in the West, who have migrated there in the past few decades and now seek revenge against their former colonial masters. THE ARAB MINORITY IN ISRAEL Open and Hidden Processes by Raphael Israeli Israeli Arabs constitute some 20% of the general population – a percentage that has remained steady since 1948, despite massive waves of Jewish aliyah. Because the Arab population growth rate is greater than the Jewish one, Israel’s Jewish nature could be endangered once sources of Jewish immigration dry up. Together with Israeli Arab refusal to integrate into Israeli political parties, and their insistence on maintaining separate linguistic and educational systems, this will perpetuate the growing gap between the two populations. TRUMAN NEWSLETTER 2017 27
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