A Transfer Agreement - The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine - Edwin Black
The Transfer Agreement
The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
The Untold Story of the Secret Pact between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: The Transfer Agreement
- Author: Edwin Black
- Publisher: Macmillan Publishing Company, New York
- Publication Date: 1984 (First Edition, First Printing)
- ISBN-13: 9780025111301 (ISBN-10: 0025111302)
- Edition Details: First Edition, First Printing. Explicitly notable as the definitive, award-winning investigative historical framework on the subject.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium cloth boards with gold/gilt-stamped typography along the spine; complete with original illustrated paper dust jacket.
- Physical Format: Medium Octavo (8vo), xvi, 430 pages. Fully augmented with comprehensive primary source appendices, archival diplomatic source notes, and an extensive index.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good (VG)
- Exterior / Boards: The original cloth boards are flat, structurally rigid, and square. The margins retain sharp corners and clean cloth textures. The spine panel remains completely firm, straight, upright, and undamaged, tightly securing the 430-page text block.
- Interior: The text block is exceptionally tight and robustly bound. The book pages are clean, clear, and completely intact throughout. Free of standard user highlights, undergraduate student notes, dealer pencil markings, or corner folds.
- Provenance: Clean archival state; entirely free of common ex-library pocket attachments, stamps, or remainder marks.
- Protection: Carefully preserved and safely enclosed within a custom archival-grade protective cellophane cover.
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The Dust Jacket: Very Good (VG)
- Condition: Bright and complete. Displays only some slight signs of minor handling and trace edge wear along the upper and lower extremities, entirely consistent with careful collection storage over the decades. Free of prominent chips or heavy sun fading.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published by the Macmillan Publishing Company in 1984, The Transfer Agreement is Edwin Black's monumental, award-winning investigative masterpiece. The book reconstructs the chilling, highly secretive 1933 pact negotiated between Zionist organizations and the newly established Nazi Germany regime, historically known as the Ha'avara Agreement. Black documents how this complex pact allowed for the direct transfer of approximately $100 million in Jewish assets and facilitated the emergency emigration of roughly 50,000 German Jews to Palestine. In exchange, Zionist leadership agreed to break and cease their participation in the massive, worldwide anti-Nazi economic boycott that threatened to bankrupt Hitler's fragile government within its first year.
Black’s driving argument uncovers a painful historical dilemma: while this controversial cooperation shattered an international economic weapon that could have destabilized the Third Reich, it simultaneously financed and populated the essential economic foundations of what would eventually become the modern State of Israel. Examining the fierce debates that split global Jewish leadership during the 1930s, this out-of-print first edition stands as an indispensable primary research text for serious collectors of World War II diplomacy, Holocaust studies, Zionist institutional history, and investigative political journalism.
Author Profile: Edwin Black
Edwin Black is an internationally acclaimed, New York Times bestselling American investigative journalist, historian, and author. The son of Polish Holocaust survivors, his work focuses heavily on human rights, historical corporate misconduct, and the hidden logistics of geopolitical power. His landmark volumes—including IBM and the Holocaust and War Against the Weak—have secured prestigious accolades, including the National Jewish Book Award. Celebrated for his scrupulous, unassailable reliance on primary archival documentation, Black's analytical prose style bridges the explosive pace of investigative journalism with deep academic authority.
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