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- Title
A Jew for All Seasons: Henry Kissinger, Jewish Expectations, and the Yom Kippur War.
- Authors
Ribak, Gil
- Abstract
This article looks at how Israelis and American Jews-politicians, state officials, rabbis, public figures, and the press-viewed Henry Kissinger in the months during and a after the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The expectations of Kissinger reflect the endurance of certain attitudes in Jewish political culture, which saw him either as an advocate on behalf of the Jews with the gentile powers that be, or as the influential yet alienated Jew willing to betray his people. Kissinger himself sometimes turned his Jewishness into a potent tool to advance his policy goals in confidential conversations with American officials, American Jews, Israelis, and Arabs. Yet Kissinger's relation to his Jewish identity was not only used as an instrument, but also defined who he was, regardless of whether or not he admitted it.
- Publication
Israel Studies Forum, 2010, Vol 25, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1557-2455
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/isf.2010.250201