The blue and the yellow stars of David : the Zionist leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939-1945

A translation (with revision) of the Hebrew Hanhaga be-milkud (1986, Am Oved, Tel Aviv), which won the Yad Ben Zvi prize. The guilt- ridden question of whether the Jewish community in Palestine really did everything in its power to rescue Jews in Nazi-occupied countries has been the subject of bitter debate in Israel since the end of WWII. Porat has analyzed the record and bases her conclusions on archival material and other primary sources hitherto mostly unused. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR