Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
ילקוט מורשת
Angaben zur Quelle:
מו (תשמט) 43-74
Keywords:
כצנלסון, ברל,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Foreign public opinion, Eretz Israel
;
Eretz Israel History 1917-1948, British Mandate period
Abstract:
Discusses the views of Katznelson (born in Poland), who was a Zionist leader and ideologue, and also the founder and editor of the newspaper "Davar" in Eretz Israel. A firm believer in Jewish self-defense, he praised the small number of Jews who defended their communities in Russia during the pogroms of the early 1900s and supported the formation of a Jewish Brigade in the British army to protect the Yishuv during World War II. However, he was mostly silent on the issue of Jewish self-defense in Nazi-occupied Europe. Although his newspaper reported the events of the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943, Katznelson himself rarely mentioned it. In a speech shortly before his death in 1944, he said that ghetto uprisings are worthwhile only if there is a chance for victory, that partisan fighting was to no avail, and that Jews in the Yishuv could not "live the suffering" of European Jews. States that although he, like Ben-Gurion, saw the future of the Jewish people only in Eretz Israel, his attitude is difficult to understand, especially since he had always advocated Jewish self-defense.
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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