The Jewish Press and the Holocaust, 19391945

EAN: 9781107011311
Published 02/02/2012
Language: English

This book represents comprehensive research into the world's Jewish press during the Second World War and explores its stance in the face of annihilation of the Jewish people by the Nazi regime in Europe. The research is based on the major Jewish newspapers that were published in four countries - Palestine, Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union - and in three languages - Hebrew, Yiddish and English. The Jewish press frequently described the situation of the Jewish people in occupied countries. It urged the Jewish leaders and institutions to act in rescue of their brethren. It protested vigorously against the refusal of the democratic leadership to recognize that the Jewish plight was unique because of the Nazi intention to annihilate Jews as a people. Yosef Gorny argues that the Jewish press was the persistent open national voice fighting on behalf of the Jewish people suffering and perishing under Nazi occupation.

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.