Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 - Palestine, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union

Informationen zum Autor Yosef Gorny is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Tel-Aviv University, where he served since 1970. His main fields of interest and research are the history of Zionism; the building of the Jewish national entity in Eretz-Israel (Palestine); the Jewish-Arab conflict; the relations between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora in the United States and in Europe; and the Zionist Labor Movement in Palestine and the anti-Zionist Labor movement in Eastern Europe. His books include Zionism and the Arabs, 1882–1948: A Study of Ideology; The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity; Converging Alternatives: The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897–1985; and Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York University, Illinois State University, Urbana, and the University of Chicago. Klappentext This book shows the reaction of the Jewish press in the free countries in the face of the Holocaust. Zusammenfassung In this book Yosef Gorny shows the reaction of the Jewish press in the free countries in the face of the Holocaust. The book explores the international Jewish public stance and argues that the Jewish press was the persistent open national voice fighting on behalf of the Jewish people. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the transnational community; Part I. From Concern to Outcry: 1939-42: 2. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine (Davar, Hatzofe, Ha'aretz, Haboqer, Hamashqif); 3. Sounding the alarm: the American Jewish press, 1939-42; Part II. The Illusion Dashed: 1942-5: 4. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine; 5. The American Jewish press; 6. The British Jewish press; 7. The brief days of Jewish national unity (Aynikayt, 1942-5); Part III. The Individual Confronts the Horror: 8. Itzhak Gruenbaum: 'the main defendant'; 9. The optimism that deludes the intellectuals; 10. Between Lidice and Majdanek; 11. Remarks on the continuing Jewish angst; 12. Conclusion....

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• Authors: Yosef Gorni, Yosef Gorny, Yosef (Tel-Aviv University) Gorny, Gorny Yosef
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2011
• EAN: 9781107011311
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01131-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Second World War, The Holocaust, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1940 to c 1949, News media and journalism, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater