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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.