| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, & Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948. By Arieh J. Kochavi. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xviii, 377 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2620-0.)

Post-Holocaust Politics cogently analyzes Britain's failure to stem the migration of hundreds of thousands of Jewish displaced persons (DPs) from Europe to Palestine in the aftermath of World War II. Arieh J. Kochavi finds that Britain opposed this mass migration in order to placate Arab powers and thereby to protect its imperial interests in the Middle East. On the basis of British, U.S., and Israeli records, Kochavi persuasively argues that an array of factors undermined Britain's efforts to stem the migration. 1

First, the Holocaust and evidence of persistent anti-Semitism in Europe impelled Zionist leaders to encourage and equip Jewish DPs--in massive campaigns known as Ha'apala and Brichah-- to make their way to Palestine. The dislocation caused by the war enabled determined DPs to move easily across international borders. Britain faced a determined and skillful adversary able to exploit the residual chaos of war. . . .

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