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  • 4 - From Humanism to Israelophilia (1945–1967)

  • Gerard Daniel Cohen, Rice University, Houston
  • Book:
    Good Jews
    Published online:
    19 September 2025
    Print publication:
    07 August 2025, pp 95-134
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    This chapter situates philosemitism within the discourse of postwar humanism. Despite a burgeoning revolt against the Western conception of “man” in French and anti-colonial philosophy, “everyday humanism” remained omnipresent in early postwar culture. How did this post-fascist humanist consensus affect perceptions of the Holocaust, Jewish refugees, and Israel during the first two decades of Western European democracy? Until the late 1950s, the humanist reprobation of Nazi inhumanity universalized the Holocaust as the catastrophe of mankind. Sympathetic observers of the new state of Israel went further. The Jewish homeland, for its admirers, not only rescued but fulfilled the promise of European humanism.