<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>new book on origins of Israel</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <BLOCKQUOTE>    <BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE>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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "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 </BLOCKQUOTE>                                                                                                            </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> ------ End of Forwarded Message </BODY> </HTML>