The Holocaust and Israel reborn : from catastrophe to sovereignty / Monty Noam Penkower.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nahum Goldmann and Jewish Statesmanship, 1919-39 -- Ben-Gurion, Silver, and the 1941 United Palestine Appeal National Conference: A Turning Point in Zionist History -- American Jewry and the Holocaust: From Biltmore to the American Jewish Conference -- In Dramatic Dissent: The Bergson Boys -- The World Jewish Congress/American Jewish Congress in the Holocaust Years -- For the Sake of Zion: Christian Allies and the Founding of Israel, 1939-45 -- The 1943 Joint Anglo-American Statement on Palestine -- Churchill, Kipling, Roosevelt, and "The Burden of Jerusalem" -- America and the Palestine Dilemma in World War II -- Jewish Cataclysm and Jewish Restoration: The Response of Leo Jung -- Eleanor Roosevelt and the Plight of World Jewry -- From Holocaust to Genocides -- Auschwitz, the Papacy, and Poland's "Jewish Problem" -- At the Crossroads: American Jewry and the State of Israel