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"Goda has done a first class service to the field...This history surveys a remarkably broad range of victim experiences in Holocaust history, moving Europe's Jews from objects of the Holocaust 'to center stage.' Viewing perpetrators through their victim's eyes brings into focus the tragic inability of many victims to 'suspend their disbelief' about the perpetrators while also presenting new perspectives for compassion toward those faced with 'choiceless choices, ' as Lawrence Langer described them." - Nathan Stoltzfus, Florida State University

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Just before Israel emerged as a state in May 1948, key United States officials hesitated and backtracked. Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett told Moshe Sharett of the Jewish Agency for Palestine that the US had expected a peaceful transition to dual states in Palestine. Now, war between Jews and Arabs and a broader regional conflict loomed. Apart from the Cold War repercussions, another mass slaughter of Jews would roil the US in a presidential election year.

James G. McDonald arrived in Israel soon after its birth, serving as US special representative and later as its first...

This volume, the third in a series of James G. McDonald s edited diaries and papers, covers his work from 1945, with the formation of the Anglo-American Committee, through 1947, with the United Nations' decision to partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs. The "Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine" was a group charged with finding a solution to the problem of European Jewish Refugees in the context of the increasingly unstable British Mandate in Palestine. McDonald s diaries and papers offer the most thorough personal account we have...