Includes bibliographical references and index.

Theodor Herzl: Zionism's driven prophet -- Honorable failures against Nazi Germany : McDonald's letter of resignation and the petition in its support -- The swastika's darkening shadow -- Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky, Hillel Kook-Peter Bergson, and the campaign for a Jewish army -- The Steinberg-Lazaron-Frank debate on Zionism and Jewish survival -- The basic equities of the Palestine problem -- Poland's distortion of the Holocaust -- The Jews were expendable : free world diplomacy and the Holocaust : thirty years later.

"The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the beleaguered Jewish people rose out of the Holocaust to restore sovereignty in the State of Israel. They include Theodor Herzl as Zionism's driven prophet; James G. McDonald's Letter of Resignation from the League of Nations and the Petition in its support; the swastika's darkening shadow in the tumultuous 1930s; Jabotinsky, Kook, and the campaign for a Jewish Army in WorlWar II; the Steinberg-Lazaron-Frank debate on Zionism and Jewish survival; The Basic Equities of the Palestine Problem; Poland's distortion of the Holocaust; and The Jews Were Expendable in the world of the bystanders and beyond. Joining extensive archival research and a limpid prose, Professor Penkower again displays a definitive mastery of his craft"--