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Film, Video The Moral Conscience of the World: The United Nations and Palestine in 1947

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Title

  • The Moral Conscience of the World: The United Nations and Palestine in 1947

Summary

  • The United Nations' role in the creation of the state of Israel marked the beginning of a critical episode in the changing colonial world order, according to historian William Roger Louis. Louis discussed the topic in a lecture titled "The Moral Conscience of the World: The United Nations and Palestine in 1947" in a program sponsored by the Library's John W. Kluge Center and the National History Center. Louis, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin in both English history and Middle Eastern studies, focused his talk on the Palestine crisis in 1947 and the creation of the Jewish state in the next year. A U.N. partition plan for Palestine was approved in 1947, terminating the British Mandate for Palestine and creating two states, one Jewish and one Arab in Palestine. According to Louis, the debate on these issues in 1947 had enduring significance. The partition plan tested the principle of self-determination.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2008-07-16.

Headings

  • -  Government, Law
  • -  Government, World Affairs

Notes

  • -  Classification: Law.
  • -  Classification: Political Science.
  • -  William Roger Louis.
  • -  Recorded on 2008-07-16.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021687985

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  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Moral Conscience of the World: The United Nations and Palestine in. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-16, 2008. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687985/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2008) The Moral Conscience of the World: The United Nations and Palestine in. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-16. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021687985/.

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Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. The Moral Conscience of the World: The United Nations and Palestine in. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-16, 2008. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021687985/>.