The Jewish press and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 : Palestine, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union / Yosef Gorny ; translated by Naftali Greenwood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The transnational community -- I. From concern to outcry 1939-1942. Chapt. I. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine (Davar, Hatzofe, Ha'aretz, Haboqer, Hamashqif) -- Chapt. 2. Sounding the alarm: the American Jewish press, 1939-1942 -- II. The illusion dashed 1942-1945 -- Chapt. 3. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine -- Chapt. 4. The American Jewish press -- Chapt. 5. The British Jewish press, 1939-1945 -- Chapt. 6. The brief days of Jewish national unity: Aynikayt, 1942-1945 -- III. The individual confronts the horror -- Chapt. 7. Itzhak Gruenbaum: the main defendant -- Chapt. 8. The optimism that deludes the intellectuals -- Chapt. 9. Between Lidice and Majdanek -- Chapt. 10. Remarks on the continuing Jewish angst -- Chapt. 11. Conclusion.

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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.

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