The Contribution of Czechoslovakia to Creation of the Independent State of Israel

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378114%3A_____%2F23%3A00587130" target="_blank" >RIV/68378114:_____/23:00587130 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/data/page/politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/25500/taterova.pdf" target="_blank" >https://politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/data/page/politickevedy.fpvmv.umb.sk/25500/taterova.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.24040/politickevedy.2023.26.4.108-129" target="_blank" >10.24040/politickevedy.2023.26.4.108-129</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Contribution of Czechoslovakia to Creation of the Independent State of Israel

Original language description

This article examines the diplomatic relations between Czechoslovakia and the Zionist movement during the late 1940s in regard to Czechoslovakia's contribution to the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948. The support provided by Czechoslovakia, both diplomatically and militarily, played a pivotal role in the formation of an independent Jewish state. Notably, this assistance continued even after Czechoslovakia underwent a political regime change following the communist coup d'état in February 1948. The article aims to unravel the reasons behind this exceptional cooperation between two seemingly distant actors, both geographically and ideologically. Drawing upon recently disclosed archival collections from the relevant Czech archives and providing the insight to the foreign policy of a Soviet satellite, this research aligns with the historiographic paradigm known as the New Cold War History. By focusing on the contributions of satellite states to Cold War history, it sheds light on Czechoslovakia's significant role in shaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East in late 1940s. Even though it might have been a somewhat marginalized story in the later decades of the Cold War due to the affiliation of the two countries with opposite ideological blocs, the history of Czechoslovakia's contribution to the creation of the State of Israel is now recognized as one of the significant narratives in the mutual relations between the two states, demonstrating the importance of past-present linkages.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA23-05300S" target="_blank" >GA23-05300S: Czechoslovak Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli Conflict from 1948-1989</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Politické vedy

ISSN

1335-2741

e-ISSN

1338-5623

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

108-129

UT code for WoS article

001237680100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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