Israel Society, the Holocaust and Its Survivors

This collection of twenty essays analyses the encounters of the Yishuv (the Hebrew community in pre-state Israel) and Israeli society with the Holocaust and with its survivors. Sixty years after the end of the Second World War this is still a painful topic, very much at the centre of the agendas of both Israel and the Jewish communities worldwide, focusing on a soul-searching issue: was the tragedy unfolding in Europe part and parcel of public life in the Yishuv, it... >Voir plus