Authors: Paul Charles Merkley
ISBN-13: 9780714648507, ISBN-10: 0714648507
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
For this book Prof. Merkeley has researched presidential archives, Jewish historical libraries, and official Zionist records in the US and in Israel for evidence of the dealings between official Zionists and active Christian Restorationists. Much of this record appears here for the first time in print and is linked to the much better known history of the relationship between the official Zionists and the politicians and leaders of the US and Britain. This earlier and significant friendship between the Christian supporters and the Zionist officials is recorded from the beginnings of the public attention in 1891 through to the influence it had on the politicians' actions that would lead to the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. Enlightening research for students of American politics, American foreign policy, and American religion - fields that sometimes intersect in ways not readily conceded by academic scholars.
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Acknowledgements | ||
Pt. 1 | 'Here I am': The Herzl/Hechler Paradigm | |
1 | Theodor Herzl and William Hechler | 3 |
2 | William Hechler's Vision | 11 |
3 | Hechler, Herzl and the Kaiser | 26 |
Pt. 2 | The Cyrus Connection | |
4 | The Restorationist Tradition in Britain | 37 |
5 | Germany Declines the Mantle of Cyrus, and Britain Takes It Up | 44 |
6 | The Restorationist Tradition in the United States | 54 |
7 | William Blackstone and the Blackstone Memorial | 59 |
8 | Louis Brandeis and Woodrow Wilson | 75 |
9 | 'A Son of the Manse' | 84 |
Pt. 3 | Rallying the Christian Zionists | |
10 | Working on Public Opinion | 97 |
11 | Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Jews and the Zionists | 117 |
12 | American Zionist Emergency Council and the Christian Zionists | 128 |
Pt. 4 | 'I am Cyrus' | |
13 | The Issue of Palestine in the Wartime Years | 149 |
14 | Harry Truman and the Zionists | 155 |
15 | A Significant Friendship | 180 |
Notes | 193 | |
Bibliography | 205 | |
Index | 215 |