For nearly a century, Jewish lawyers and advocacy groups in Western Europe and the United States pioneered forms of international rights protection, tying the defense of Jews to norms and rules that aspired to curb the worst behavior of rapacious nation-states. Bringing to light previously unexamined sources, Nathan Kurz examines the transformation of Jewish internationalism from an effort to constrain the power of nation-states to one focused on cementing Israel's legitimacy and its status as a haven for refugees from across the Jewish diaspora.

Please join the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to launch Nathan Kurz's Jewish Internationalism and Human Rights after the Holocaust on February 27, 2022 at 19:00 IST, 18:00 CET, 12:00 EST.