Canada and the Birth of Israel: A Study in Canadian Foreign Policy

by David J. Bercuson

Canadian Zionists of the 1930s were anxious to involve their government in the Palestine question. The pressure they brought to bear was fuelled by a new urgency when British policy in Palestine denied entry to Jewish refugees from the Nazi terror. Today there is a widely held impression that the Canadian government responded quickly and sympathetically to that pressure. Jews and Arabs alike, each for their own purposes, have created the image...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442651830
• ISBN13: 9781442651838
• Release Date: December 1985
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"