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Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem, two of the 20th century's greatest German Jewish thinkers, are commonly regarded as antagonists. This perception reflects their diverging views on the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem in 1961, but represents a fundamental misreading of thei…

This dissertation, "American Religious Diplomacy and the State of Israel, 1933-1979," argues that when Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933 American Protestants were overwhelmingly anti-Semitic but that by 1979—the year a self-professed born again Christian President brokered…