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180.
Boston Globe
, 26 June 1942;
New York Times
, 27 June 1942. The
Times
had an extensive summary of the report on 2 July, however.
181.
Nation
, 19 May 1945; Abzug,
op. cit
., 136-7.
182.
Wyman,
op. cit
., 313 and footnote.
183.
Ibid
., 112ff.
184.
Penkower,
op. cit
., 193.
185.
Wyman,
op. cit
., 299.
186.
Hilberg,
op. cit
., i 358.
187.
Wyman,
op. cit
., 4-5.
188.
For Betar see Marcus,
Social and Political History of the Jews in Poland 1919-38
, 271-3; Silver,
op. cit
., 19ff.
189.
Hilberg,
op. cit
., i 186-7.
190.
About one-third of it has been published: Lucjan Dobroszynski (ed.),
The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-44
(Yale 1984).
191.
Penkower,
op. cit
., 292, 337-8, note 10.
192.
Gilbert,
The Holocaust
, 426-7.
193.
Davidowicz,
op. cit
., 301.
194.
Ibid
., 289.
195.
Deuteronomy 28:66-7.
196.
Yaffa Eliach (ed.),
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
(Oxford 1983).
197.
Arnold J. Pomerans (trans.),
Etty: A Diary, 1941-3
(London 1983).
198.
For Warsaw, see Yisrael Gutman,
The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-43: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt
(trans., Brighton 1982); Hilberg,
op. cit
., ii 511-12.
199.
See ‘Rose Robota, Heroine of the Auschwitz Underground’, in Yuri Suhl (ed.),
They Fought Back
(New York 1975); Philip Muller,
Auschwitz Inferno: The Testimony of a Sonderskommando
(London 1979), 143-60.
200.
Ferencz,
op. cit
., 21.
201.
Ibid
., 20.
202.
Gilbert,
The Holocaust
, 461.
203.
Hilberg,
op. cit
., ii 438.
204.
Gilbert,
The Holocaust
, 457.
205.
Abzug,
op. cit
., 106.
206.
Gilbert,
The Holocaust
, 419.
207.
Ibid
., 808, 793.
208.
International Military Tribunal Nuremberg, Document NG-2757, quoted in Gilbert,
The Holocaust
, 578.
209.
Abzug,
op. cit
., 152ff.
210.
Ibid
., 160.
211.
Gilbert,
The Holocaust
, 816ff.
212.
For statistics of war trials, see
Encyclopaedia Judaica
, xvi 288-302.
213.
For a useful summary, see Howard Sachar,
op. cit
., 7-13.
214.
Quoted in Ferencz,
op. cit
., Introduction, xi.
215.
Ibid
., 189.
216.
The Council debates are summarized in Bea’s own book,
The Church and the Jewish People
(London 1966), which gives the text of the Declaration in appendix
I
, 147-53.
PART SEVEN: ZION
1.
Amos 3:2.
2.
Arthur A. Cohen,
The Natural and Supernatural Jew
(London 1967), 180-2.
3.
Robert Wistrich,
Hitler’s Apocalypse: Jews and the Nazi Legacy
(London 1986), 162ff.
4.
Quoted in H. H. Ben Sasson (ed.),
A History of the Jewish People
(trans., Harvard 1976), 1040.
5.
Churchill to Sir Edward Grigg, 12 July 1944; Monty Noam Penkower,
The Jews Were Expendable: Free World Diplomacy and the Holocaust
(Chicago 1983), ch. 1, ‘The Struggle for an Allied Jewish Fighting Force’, 3ff.
6.
Evelyn Waugh,
The Holy Places
(London 1952), 2.
7.
Eric Silver,
Begin
(London 1984), 8.
8.
Menachem Begin,
White Nights
(New York 1977).
9.
Michael Bar-Zohar,
Ben Gurion: A Biography
(London 1978), 129.
10.
Thurston Clarke,
By Blood and Fire
(London 1981), 116.
11.
Silver,
op. cit
., 67-72.
12.
Nicholas Bethell,
The Palestine Triangle: The Struggle Between the British, the Jews and the Arabs
(London 1979), 261ff.
13.
Michael J. Cohen,
Palestine and the Great Powers
(Princeton 1982), 270-6, for the British decision to withdraw.
14.
Alfred Steinberg,
The Man from Missouri: The Life and Times of Harry S. Truman
(New York 1952), 301.
15.
The Forrestal Diaries
(New York 1951), 324, 344, 348.
16.
Petroleum Times
, June 1948.
17.
Leonard Schapiro, ‘The Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee…’, in B. Vago and G. L. Mosse (eds),
Jews and Non-Jews in Eastern Europe
(New York 1974), 291ff.
18.
Howard Sachar, ‘The Arab-Israel Issue in the Light of the Cold War’,
Sino-Soviet Institute Studies
(Washington
DC
), 1966, 2.
19.
Howard Sachar,
Europe Leaves the Middle East 1936-54
(London 1974), 546-7; Netanel Lorch,
The Edge of the Sword: Israel’s War of Independence 1947-9
(New York 1961), 90; David Horowitz,
The State in the Making
(New York 1953), 27.
20.
Rony E. Gabbay,
A Political Study of the Arab-Jewish Conflict
(Geneva 1959), 92-3.
21.
Edward Luttwak and Dan Horowitz,
The Israeli Army
(New York 1975), 23ff.
22.
For the course of the fighting see Edgar O’Ballance,
The Arab-Israeli War 1948
(London 1956).
23.
Jabotinsky Archives; quoted in Silver,
op. cit
., 90.
24.
For an account of the Deir Yassin affair, see
ibid
., 88-95.
25.
See maps and figures on the provenance and distribution of Arab and Jewish refugees in Martin Gilbert,
The Arab-Israel Conflict: Its History in Maps
(London 1974), 49, 50.
26.
Cairo Radio, 19 July 1957.
27.
Genesis 15:1-6; 12:1-3.
28.
Gilbert,
op. cit
., 11, for map of 1919 proposal. See also maps in
Encyclopaedia Judaica
, ix 315-16.
29.
Gilbert,
op. cit
., 24, for map of Peel proposal.
30.
Quoted in W. D. Davies,
The Territorial Dimension in Judaism
(Berkeley 1982), 114-15; see also Ben Halpern,
The Idea of the Jewish State
(2nd edn, Harvard 1969), 41ff.
31.
For the Sinai War see Chaim Herzog,
The Arab-Israeli Wars
(London 1982).
32.
For the Six Day War see Terence Prittie,
Israel: Miracle in the Desert
(2nd edn, London 1968).
33.
For the Yom Kippur War see Herzog,
op. cit
.
34.
For the Israel-Egypt peace negotiations see two eye-witness accounts, Moshe Dayan,
Breakthrough
(London 1981); Ezer Weizman,
The Battle for Peace
(New York 1981).
35.
Quoted in S. Clement Leslie,
The Rift in Israel: Religious Authority and Secular Democracy
(London 1971), 63ff.
36.
Amos Perlmutter,
Israel: the Partitioned State: A Political History since 1900
(New York 1985), ch. 7; R. J. Isaacs,
Israel Divided: Ideological Politics in the Jewish State
(Baltimore 1976), 66ff.
37.
Text of the Law of Return (as amended 1954, 1970) is given in Philip S. Alexander,
Textual Sources for the Study of Judaism
(Manchester 1984), 166-7.
38.
For this ruling see
ibid
., 168-71.
39.
For immigrants from Europe see map in Gilbert,
op. cit
., 51; detailed immigration figures up to 1970 are in
Encyclopaedia Judaica
, ix, 534-46.
40.
B. C. Kaganoff,
A Dictionary of Jewish Names and their History
(London 1977).
41.
Bar-Zohar,
op. cit
., 171-2.
42.
Silver,
op. cit
., 99-108.
43.
Dan Horowitz and Moshe Lissak,
Origins of the Israeli Polity: Palestine Under the Mandate
(Chicago 1978).