This book shows the reaction of the Jewish press in the free countries in the face of the Holocaust.

1. Introduction: the transnational community; Part I. From Concern to Outcry: 1939-42: 2. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine (Davar, Hatzofe, Ha'aretz, Haboqer, Hamashqif); 3. Sounding the alarm: the American Jewish press, 1939-42; Part II. The Illusion Dashed: 1942-5: 4. The Hebrew-language press in Palestine; 5. The American Jewish press; 6. The British Jewish press; 7. The brief days of Jewish national unity (Aynikayt, 1942-5); Part III. The Individual Confronts the Horror: 8. Itzhak Gruenbaum: 'the main defendant'; 9. The optimism that deludes the intellectuals; 10. Between Lidice and Majdanek; 11. Remarks on the continuing Jewish angst; 12. Conclusion.

Yosef Gorny is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History at Tel-Aviv University, where he served since 1970. His main fields of interest and research are the history of Zionism; the building of the Jewish national entity in Eretz-Israel (Palestine); the Jewish-Arab conflict; the relations between the State of Israel and the Jewish Diaspora in the United States and in Europe; and the Zionist Labor Movement in Palestine and the anti-Zionist Labor movement in Eastern Europe. His books include Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: A Study of Ideology; The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity; Converging Alternatives: The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985; and Between Auschwitz and Jerusalem. He has been a visiting professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, New York University, Illinois State University, Urbana, and the University of Chicago.