{"product_id":"to-the-gates-of-jerusalem-the-diaries-and-papers-of-james-g-mcdonald-1945-1947-9780253015099","title":"To the Gates of Jerusalem: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1945-1947","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume, the third in a series of James G. McDonald's edited diaries and papers, covers his work from 1945, with the formation of the Anglo-American Committee, through 1947, with the United Nations' decision to partition Palestine between Jews and Arabs. The \"Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine\" was a group charged with finding a solution to the problem of European Jewish Refugees in the context of the increasingly unstable British Mandate in Palestine. McDonald's diaries and papers offer the most thorough personal account we have of the Committee and the politics surrounding it. His diary is part travelogue through the desolation of postwar Europe and a Middle East being transformed by new Jewish settlements and growing Arab intransigence. McDonald maintained discreet contact with Zionist and moderate Arab leaders throughout the Committee's hearings and deliberations. He was instrumental in the recommendation that 100,000 Jewish refugees enter Palestine and won President Truman's trust in order to counter attempts to nullify the report's recommendations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorman J. W. Goda is the Norman and Irma Braman Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Florida and author of \u003ci\u003eTomorrow the World: Hitler, Northwest Africa, and the Path toward America\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTales from Spandau: Nazi Criminals and the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Holocaust: Europe, the World, and the Jews, 1918-1945\u003c\/i\u003e. He is author (with Richard Breitman) of \u003ci\u003eHitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War\u003c\/i\u003e and (with Richard Breitman, Timothy Naftali, and Robert Wolfe) of \u003ci\u003eU.S. Intelligence and the Nazis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara McDonald Stewart, daughter of James G. McDonald, has taught at George Mason University and is author of \u003ci\u003eUnited States Government Policy on Refugees from Nazism, 1933-1940\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeverin Hochberg, a historian formerly at what is now the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRichard Breitman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eFDR and the Jews\u003c\/i\u003e (with Allan J. Lichtman). His other books include The \u003ci\u003eArchitect of Genocide: Himmler and the Final Solution\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOfficial Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew\u003c\/i\u003e. He is editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eHolocaust and Genocide Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press (Ips)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179032375570,"sku":"9780253015099","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b8f67ef-996a-4b26-9a8b-bd8d6f9b3afe.jpg?v=1775633718","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/to-the-gates-of-jerusalem-the-diaries-and-papers-of-james-g-mcdonald-1945-1947-9780253015099","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}