Three days in December: Jewish human rights between the United Nations and the middle east in 1948

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY
James Loeffler
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Abstract

The twin birth of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the UN Genocide Convention in 1948 have received enormous scholarly attention in recent years. Yet historians have largely ignored how these legal projects intersected with that year’s war in Israel/Palestine. In this article, I push these two stories back into a single frame by examining the year-long efforts of one early human rights organization, the World Jewish Congress, to advance rights-claims on behalf of Middle Eastern Jewish communities imperiled by the regional repercussions of the war. The WJC’s record of activities affords us a direct window into contemporaneous activist understandings of the ties between the Holocaust and the Nakba, human rights and genocide, and international law and politics. More broadly, it reveals the intrinsic limits of early human rights advocacy in an emerging global system exclusively structured around nation states.
十二月三日:1948年联合国与中东之间的犹太人人权
联合国《世界人权宣言》和1948年《联合国灭绝种族罪公约》的诞生近年来受到了学术界的极大关注。然而,历史学家在很大程度上忽略了这些法律项目与当年以色列/巴勒斯坦战争的交集。在这篇文章中,我通过考察早期人权组织世界犹太人大会长达一年的努力,将这两个故事重新整合到一个框架中,该组织代表受战争地区影响的中东犹太社区提出权利主张。WJC的活动记录为我们提供了一个直接的窗口,让我们了解同时代的活动家对大屠杀和Nakba、人权和种族灭绝以及国际法和政治之间关系的理解。更广泛地说,它揭示了在一个完全围绕民族国家构建的新兴全球体系中,早期人权倡导的内在局限性。
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3.30
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5.30%
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28
期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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