The transatlantic connection: the American Jewish Committee and the Joint Foreign Committee in defense of German Jews, 1933-1937 *. From: American Jewish History | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: Cohen, Naomi W. | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Jewish Historical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Modern Jewish historiography abounds with national histories. We turn out countless books on the history of the Jews in England, France, Germany, and the United States. I would like to suggest that historians focus more specifically on the international dimension of those national histories, that is, on how the links between Jews in country A and those in country B influenced Jewish policy and behavior in both A and B. To be sure, some subjects by definition, like the well-known sto...