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Volume 9, No.1 Fall1990 BOOK REVIEWS Chosen Instrument: The Jewish Agency in the First Decade of the State of Israel, by Ernest Stock. New York: Herzl Press, 1989. $10.00. In recent years the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI for short), nee the Jewish Agency for Palestine, has begun to receive the recognition it deserves for its role in the reconstituted Jewish polity as the principal bridging institution between Israel and the Diaspora. JAFI today serves as the nexus of the network of institutions and organizations through which the Jewish people handle their common affairs. (In that network, in addition to JAFI, there are the World Zionist Organization, Keren Hayesod, the United Jewish Appeal, the United Israel Appeal, and the Council of Jewish Federations, all of which are represented directly or indirectly in the governing bodies of the Agency, plus the Joint Distribution Committee, the World Jewish Congress, the World Conference on Soviet Jewry, and HIAS, which are tied to the core group, sometimes antagonistically.) Even so, JAFI and its role are not well enough known, understood, or appreciated. Indeed, the first published academic literature on the subject appeared no more than two decades ago and the first book
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Oct 3, 1990
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