[lbo-talk] new book on origins of Israel

[Mark Pavlick]

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>>> In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in
>>> the Aftermath of World War II
>>> by Yosef Grodzinsky
>>> Introduction by Michael Lerner
>>> Cover Price: $19.95
>>> Our Price: $12.97
>>> Buy direct and save 35%.
>>>  
>>> Edition: Paperback, 288 pages
>>> Dimensions: 
>>> Forthcoming September 2004. Order now and we will ship on printing.
>>> The story of Jews in displaced Person Camps and their forced role in the
>>> founding of Israel.
>>> This is the story of different Jewish national agendas in the 20th century,
>>> and how they came into conflict in the aftermath of the Second World War -
>>> between the end of the War and the establishment of the State of Israel. It
>>> exposes the plight of homeless Holocaust survivors and Displaced Persons
>>> trying to rebuild their lives, and their intricate relationship with the
>>> Zionist idea and the Zionist movement in Palestine.
>>> Starting at war's end, the book describes the mass migration of Jewish
>>> refugees into Germany, the establishment of DP camps, and the impressive
>>> social structure that survivor leaders succeeded in implementing. It tells
>>> the touching story of the encounter between Jewish survivors and Zionist
>>> envoys, dispatched from Palestine to the camps in order to help in
>>> rehabilitation efforts, but also with a clear Zionist agenda: Their mission
>>> was to bring all the "Surviving Remnant" (She'erit ha-pleyta) to Palestine.
>>> Survivors were to be "the anvil upon which the revolt against the British
>>> [in Palestine] must be forged" (David Ben-Gurion); they were expected to
>>> keep knocking on the doors of Palestine (closed to immigration by the
>>> British), to populate the country, and during the 1948 war, fill the ranks
>>> of the Israeli army, dwindled by the fighting with the Arabs.
>>> Using massive, newly unraveled archival material, the book describes life
>>> and the world of the Jewish DPs, up to the drama that took place as the
>>> Zionists tried to draft 'Good human material' for Palestine immigration, and
>>> thereby brought the conflict between Jewish and Zionist national agendas to
>>> its peak. Refugees and survivors were not always interested in Palestine
>>> immigration, and thus Zionists sometimes resorted to unusual steps in the
>>> european DP camps: In 1945, they forcefully prevented the rescue of child
>>> survivors; in 1948, they instituted there forced conscription to the Israel
>>> Defense Force.
>>> Told with great empathy to the plight of Jewish survivors, the book exposes
>>> new facts on the establishment of the State of Israel, and raises new
>>> questions regarding the nature of national identity, and the writing of the
>>> history of Zionism.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Praise  
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>>> "Yosef Grodzinsky has an important story to tell... His book...shows that
>>> Zionist arrogance was there even before it was directed at Palestinians-when
>>> it manifested in an insensitivity to the needs of the survivors of the
>>> Holocaust... For me, Grodzinsky's work reconfirms a basic understanding that
>>> human life is deeply flawed. May this book contribute to people getting off
>>> their high horses."
>>> --Rabbi Michael Lerner, Editor, Tikkun Magazine
>>> "It will be hard to deal with some of the most painful personal testimonies
>>> that echo through the book... It was not easy to read this book. If only
>>> some of the claims and facts are correct, we are a state based on the
>>> cynical exploitation of the survivors. The book shakes the foundations of
>>> the Hebrew Zionist education we all had since the beginnings of Israeli
>>> education....it is important to read this book in order to understand to
>>> some extent the pain, the loss, the despair and the trauma."
>>> --Avram Burg, Member of Knesset, Past Chairman, The Jewish Agency
>>> "Written with passion and an obsession for accuracy."
>>> -- Ariana Melamed, Ha-'ir - the leading Tel Aviv weekly
>>> AUTHOR BIO
>>> Yosef Grodzinsky is professor of Psychology at Tel Aviv University, and
>>> Professor and Canada Research chair in NeuroLinguistics at McGill
>>> University. 
>>>  
>>>             
>>> © Copyright Common Courage Press 2004
>>> Box 702 Monroe,ME 04951
>>> 800-497-3207
>>> 
>>> 
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