The Eichmann Trial and American Jewry: A Reassessment


 

Publication Date: January 2007

Publisher: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

Author(s): Francoise S. Ouzan

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: History; Israel attachment; Holocaust; Diaspora relations

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author explores the effect of the Eichmann trial on the American Jewish community. The author asserts that the trial raised the issue of the allegedly exiled status of the American Jewish community, causing some American Jews to rethink the connection between the Shoah and the Jewish state which was supposed to represent them.