Overview

Could the Arab-Israeli conflict have been avoided? Was it possible to achieve peace between Jews and Arabs in Palestine in the 1930s? This study discusses the Fifth Avenue muti-millionaires who believed they could bring peace to the Middle East through secret diplomacy and a generous dose of ""Baksheesh"" (the Arabic word for bribery). Taken from documents unearthed on three continents, the story takes the reader from the elite Jewish social clubs of interwar Manhattan to the bustling bazaars of Baghdad, as it attempts to shed fresh light on the Arab-Jewish conflict, the relationship between American Jewry and the Holy Land, and the divisions within the Jewish community over the Palestinian Arab issue.

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Rafael Medoff's meticulous scholarship has, once again, brought to light previously unknown episodes in Zionist and American Jewish history. This convincing, well-documented historical work that reads like a mystery novel will be welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.--Jeffrey S. Gurock

Rafael Medoff's books and essays are always meticulously researched, and in this work he performs a much needed task.--Marc Raphael

Author Information

Rafael Medoff is Visiting Scholar in Jewish Studies at Purchase College, the State University of New York. His previous books include the Historical Dictionary of Zionism (with Chaim I. Waxman, 2000), Zionism and the Arabs: An American Jewish Dilemma (1997), and The Deafening Silence: American Jewish Leaders and the Holocaust, 1933-1945 (1987).

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