The Holocaust and Israel Restored

The chapters in this volume examine facets in the drama of Jewish existence in the tumultuous years of the Twentieth Century and beyond. They include Theodor Herzl as Zionism’s driven prophet; James G. McDonald’s valiant effort to alert the world to the Nazi menace; the darkening shadow of the swastika in the 1930s across the European Continent; the Revisionist-Zionist campaign for a Jewish Army in World War II; a debate on Zionism and Jewish survival after the Shoah; the 1947 legal brief for a Jewish State; Poland’s distortion of the Holocaust; and The Jews Were Expendable – forty years later. Joining extensive archival research and a limpid prose, Professor Monty Noam Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft.

Contributor: Monty Noam Penkower Monty Noam Penkower, Professor Emeritus of Modern Jewish History at the Machon Lander Graduate School of Jewish Studies (Jerusalem), is the prize-winning author of many books on the Holocaust, on American Jewry, and on the rise of the State of Israel in the years.

“Monty N. Penkower, preeminent historian of the modern Jewish experience, has produced another triumph of scholarship in The Holocaust and Israel Restored. In this erudite volume, Penkower skillfully navigates the interconnected fields of international responses to the Holocaust and the Zionist struggle to produce a highly informative, well written study that deserves to be on every bookshelf. The Holocaust and Israel Restored undoubtedly will come to be regarded as indispensable to understanding these complex and urgent areas of history.”

— Dr. Rafael Medoff, Director, The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

“The 1940s were probably the most tumultuous and challenging period in Jewish history, definitely in modern Jewish history: on the one hand the Shoah/Holocaust and its physically and culturally disastrous results for Jewish existence, on the other hand the establishment of the State of Israel. The proximity of these events have triggered meta-historical, religious and mythical explanations and interpretations. Some politicized explanations have been - and are - also used to criticize Israel’s very existence. Prof. Monty Penkower has dedicated five decades of research to unravel the historical processes of the developments in this period through in-depth examination, which has culminated in a series of books. Penkower has thus become a central voice in the scholarly and public discussion on this period. The current volume, The Holocaust and Israel Restored: From Rupture to Revival, is a renewed look and reassessment of some of the major aspects and issues at stake, and includes also a self-analysis of Penkower’s path to this topic. This book is an important contribution to sound scholarship of a most sensitive topic.”

— Prof. Dan Michman, Head, The International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad Vashem; and Professor (Emeritus) of Modern Jewish History, Bar-Ilan University

“At a time when the Holocaust is being universalized, trivialized, and denied outright, Professor Monty Noam Penkower has done an indispensable job in reminding us of the real nature of this monstrous event and its implications for the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and the international community at large, especially in the wake of Hamas's 10/7/2023 massacres. His compelling narrative is a must read.”

— Efraim Karsh, Emeritus Professor of Mediterranean & Middle East Studies, King's College Lonson; Emeritus Professor of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University