Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings » (New Edition)

Jews and Human Rights analyzes the role of Jews in the formation of international human rights efforts throughout the U.S., Israel, and the Former Soviet Union. It examines this human rights work as part of a total system of Jewish political commitments, a system shaped by both human rights history and Jewish history. Jews and Human Rights argues that protecting human rights has been a persistent, if not always predominant, feature of Jews' political mission in the world.

Acknowledgments     ix
Introduction     1
Building Human Rights     29
Freeing Soviet Jews-and After     51
Jewish Responses to Non-Jewish Genocides     83
American Jews and Violations in Zion: A Case Study     111
Israeli, Jewish, Human     129
Epilogue: The Road from Durban     167
Genocides and Other Mass Killings     173
Israel's Adoption of Major Human Rights Treaties     177
Glossary of Abbreviations     179
Notes     181
Bibliography     223
Index     245
About the Author     255