Formulas for Peace in the Middle East; Histadrut Round Table - 8
New York: American Histadrut Cultural Exchange Institute, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. 55, [1] pages. Biographical Notes. The contents include Introduction, Toward a Revised American Policy in the Middle East by Amos Perlmutter; A New Approach to Peace in the Middle East by Nadav Safran. Discussion and Biographical Notes. Histadrut was founded in 1920 and is the largest labor union and voluntary organization in Israel. It is the largest Jewish labor organization in the world. "Histadrut is open to all Jewish working men and women who live by their own labor...without exploiting the labor of others.". The Histadrut was founded in December 1920 in Haifa to look out for the interests of Jewish workers. Until 1920, Ahdut HaAvoda and Hapoel Hatzair had been unable to set up a unified workers organization. In 1920, Third Aliyah immigrants founded Gdud HaAvoda and demanded a unified organization for all Jewish workers, which led to the establishment of the Histadrut. At the end of 1921 David Ben-Gurion was elected as Secretary. Membership grew from 4,400 in 1920 and to 8,394 members in 1922. In 1926 the Histadrut supported an art studio in Tel Aviv. By 1927, the Histadrut had around 22,000 members, accounting for 68% of the Jewish workforce in Mandatory Palestine. In 1939, its membership stood at about 100,000, or about 75% of the Jewish workforce. Amos Perlmutter was a Washington-based political scientist, author and commentator on Middle Eastern affairs. He was the author of 15 books and innumerable articles and essays about the Middle East and American foreign and security policies. Topics included strategic studies, military sociology and comparative politics. Dr. Perlmutter's last newspaper column, ''Arafat's Failed Utopia,'' a critique of the Middle East peace effort, appeared in The Jerusalem Post on June 8, 2001. He grew up in Palestine and fought for Israel in the wars of 1948, 1956 and 1973. Before settling in Washington, he served as atomic energy commissioner in Israel, political adviser to the Israeli military and member of Israel's delegation to the United Nations. Besides English, he was conversant in Hebrew, Arabic, French and German. He held a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and taught at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and the Free University of Berlin. Since 1972 he served as a professor of political science and sociology at American University in Washington. Viewers of television news programs knew him as an expert on terrorism, Israel and the Middle East in general. His weekly opinion columns also appeared in The Washington Times. He was the author of a biography, ''The Life and Times of Menachem Begin'' (Doubleday, 1987), a highly critical assessment that became a best seller and appeared in a pirated Arabic version. Among his other books were ''Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianism and Its Totalitarian Challengers''; ''The War Policies of F.D.R., 1943-1945''; ''F.D.R. and Stalin: A Not So Grand Alliance, 1943-1945''; and a classic text of political science, ''The Military and Politics in Modern Times''. Dr. Perlmutter was the co-editor of the Journal of Strategic Studies, and he contributed essays and commentary to the op-ed pages of several newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Maariv and Haaretz in Israel and Der Tagespiegel in Berlin. Nadav Safran (August 25, 1925, Cairo July 5, 2003, State College, PA) was an expert in Arab and Middle East politics and a director of Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Safran worked on a kibbutz in 1946 and fought as a lieutenant in the 1948 ArabIsraeli War. After the armistice was signed in 1949, he moved to the United States in 1950 and attended Brandeis University, graduating with a B.A. in 1954, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1958. He remained at Harvard to teach government for two years and then worked as a research fellow at the university's Center for Middle East Studies. He became director of the Center for Middle East Studies and was also at that time an adviser to the White House on Middle East issues. He was a professor in Harvard's Government department until his retirement in 2002. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Middle East, Israel, Peace, Foreign Policy, Jews, Arabs
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