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(over the Israel Army radio network); and
Ha-Shoah
—
Hebetim
Historiim
(The Holocaust in Historical Perspective: Tel Aviv,
1982). This is the Hebrew edition o f a book originally published
in English (Seattle, 1978).
WARSAW JEWRY
The story o f the largest Jewish ghetto in wartime Europe,
whose population reached 450,000 before its liquidation, is re
lated in Yisrael Gutman’s
The Jews o f Warsaw, 1939-1945 . Ghetto
,
Underground, Revolt
(Bloomington, 1982). The book describes the
stages in the development o f the Jewish underground and the
Jewish Fighting Organization, leading up to the revolt o f April
1943, which became a general uprising o f the remnants o f the
ghetto. The revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto served as a symbol and
an example to fighters in other ghettos and to the resistance
movement in Poland as a whole.
Chaim Shatzker and Yisrael Gutman co-authored a Hebrew
textbook for the senior grades o f high school and for use in
teachers’ colleges, entitled
Ha-Shoah u-Mashma’utah
(The Holo
caust and Its Meaning: Jerusa lem , 1982). T he book went
through five editions in six months and serves as the basis for the
teaching of the Holocaust in required courses. It opens with the
year 1918 and lays a good deal o f stress on the historical continu
ity in the deterioration o f the Jews’ position in inter-war Europe.
The book describes the events o f the Holocaust in the various
countries o f Europe, and details the stages in the unfolding o f the
Nazis’ “final solution.” The final chapter deals with the struggle
of the survivors in the Displaced Persons camps to achieve reha
bilitation and start a new life, an account which the authors take
up till 1948. This book is both a teachers’ resource and a text
book. T h e app ro a ch is ch rono log ica l, while emphasizing
throughout the crucial issues of the Holocaust period.
Poles and Jews: Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World
War,
by Yisrael Gutman and Shmuel Krakowsky (New York, in
print) is a comprehensive study of this vexed problem. The sub
ject is typically prey to sharply opposed, polemical treatments. In
this book, the authors base their careful findings on both Polish
and Jewish primary source material. The analysis o f the docu
ments reveals the nature o f the many encounters between Jews
and Poles, in a variety o f places, during the period in question.