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Author Porat, Dina.

Title Israeli society, the Holocaust and its survivors / Dina Porat.

Imprint London ; Portland, OR : Vallentine Mitchell, 2008.
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 Holocaust Library Books  D804.45.I77 P67 2008    Library Use Only
Collation xii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents David Ben-Gurion and the Holocaust -- The Allies, Herzl's Testament, the Holocaust, and limitations of Jewish policies, July 1944 -- Martin Buber in Eretz-Israel during the Holocaust years, 1942-1944 -- "Al-Domi" : Palestinian intellectuals and the Holocaust, 1943-1945 -- With forgiveness and grace : the encounter between Ruzka Korczak, the Yishuv, and its leaders, 1944-1946 -- The Transnistria Affair and the rescue policy of the Zionist leadership in Palestine, 1942-1943 -- Hungary, 19 March-19 July 1944 : did the Yishuv know? -- One side of a Jewish triangle in Italy : the encounter of Italian Jews with Holocaust survivors and with Hebrew soldiers and Zionist representatives in Italy, 1944-1946 -- "A year of extermination" : a document on the attitude of the Yishuv in Eretz-Israel toward youth movements in Europe during the Holocaust -- Zionist pioneering youth movements in Poland and their attitude to Eretz-Israel during the Holocaust -- The impact of the war on the Zionist pioneering youth movements in Poland during the Shoah -- Palestinian Jewry and the Jewish Agency : public response to the Holocaust -- The story of 29,000 immigration certificates for children -- Diaspora negation and rescue during the Holocaust : a contradiction? -- The role of European Jewry in the plans of the Zionist movement during the Second World War and its aftermath -- Attitudes of the young state of Israel toward the Holocaust and its survivors : a debate over identity and values -- Teaching the Holocaust to Israeli students, 1974-1987 -- "Amalek's accomplices" : blaming Zionism for the Holocaust : anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox circles in Israel during the 1980s -- Attitudes within Israeli society toward the Jews of Europe and Holocaust survivors in the 1990s -- Some effects of the Holocaust on Israeli demography and foreign policy.
Summary Dina Porat has collected together a number of seminal articles that she has published over the last two decades. The central theme of the book is the relationships between the Jewish Diaspora in Europe and the emerging Jewish community in Palestine, and later the Israeli Jewish society in the shadow of the Holocaust.
Note Gift of William Shulman.
Subject Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Palestine -- Public opinion.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Israel -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- Palestine.
Public opinion -- Israel.
Holocaust survivors -- Israel.
Israel -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN 9780853037415 (hbk.)
0853037418 (hbk.)
0853037426 (pbk.)
9780853037422 (pbk.)