Language:
English
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Yad Vashem Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,2 (2013) 95-138
Keywords:
Ṭabenḳin, Yitsḥaḳ,
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Yaari, Meir,
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World War, 1939-1945 Jewish resistance
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
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Eretz Israel History 1939-1945
Abstract:
In the mid-1950s, a controversy broke out in the Israeli Left (leftist parties and kibbutz movements) over a cable allegedly sent in 1943 from Eretz Israel addressed to the underground organization in the ghetto of Będzin, Poland. Although the cable disappeared, according to several testimonies it was received. In it, Yitzhak Tabenkin, leader of the Hakibbutz Hameuhad Movement, and Meir Ya’ari of Hashomer Hatzair ordered their associates in the Będzin underground to desist from further uprisings after the one in the Warsaw ghetto, and to "pursue all ways to emigrate", i.e. to switch all their efforts to rescue. The fighters refused to follow the order, which is evidence of the conflict between the Zionist organizations in Eretz Israel and in Poland. The Tabenkin-Ya’ari cable controversy defied the Israeli myth of the Jewish resistance in occupied Poland having been part of the all-Jewish fight for a homeland, and showed Yishuv leaders as indifferent to the plight of Polish Jewry or as cowards. Many writers have denied the existence of such a cable. Contends that the Tabenkin-Ya’ari cable was indeed sent to Będzin, although it probably arrived in oral form rather than in written form. Reconstructs the events of 1943 and the reasons why Tabenkin and Ya’ari sent such a cable, and why the Jewish Fighting Organization refused to fulfill the order.
Note:
In Hebrew:
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יד ושם 41, 2 (2014) 79-112
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