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Rights Protection Has a Geography

Rights Protection Has a Geography Rebekah Klein-Pejšová How shall we address the question of Jewish rights protections? To what extent have we become beholden to a conventional, “lazy dichotomy between nationhood and cosmopolitanism” in considering the issue? Between particular and universal claims? Must we imagine the quest as Jews (as members of the group) or as individuals? Can we even sep- arate the two? Time and place dictate our challenges and opportunities in answer- ing the question of rights protections. In 1946, United States Army general Mark W. Clark called on Jewish displaced persons remaining in the American zone in Austria to carefully ponder their present position and where their best chance for future security and economic indepen- dence might lie. He urged them to go home, underscoring the difc fi ulty of emigration to North and South American countries that let in only Home was in the countries from small numbers of people annually. which they had been uprooted and which would soon lie behind the Iron Curtain. Jews who chose to go home would largely face two choices after 1948: they could emigrate and take on a Jewish nationality within the newly established State of Israel, or they could completely and fully http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Rebekah Klein-Pejšová How shall we address the question of Jewish rights protections? To what extent have we become beholden to a conventional, “lazy dichotomy between nationhood and cosmopolitanism” in considering the issue? Between particular and universal claims? Must we imagine the quest as Jews (as members of the group) or as individuals? Can we even sep- arate the two? Time and place dictate our challenges and opportunities in answer- ing the question of rights protections. In 1946, United States Army general Mark W. Clark called on Jewish displaced persons remaining in the American zone in Austria to carefully ponder their present position and where their best chance for future security and economic indepen- dence might lie. He urged them to go home, underscoring the difc fi ulty of emigration to North and South American countries that let in only Home was in the countries from small numbers of people annually. which they had been uprooted and which would soon lie behind the Iron Curtain. Jews who chose to go home would largely face two choices after 1948: they could emigrate and take on a Jewish nationality within the newly established State of Israel, or they could completely and fully

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press

Published: Mar 15, 2019

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