{"product_id":"survivors-of-the-holocaust-9780814796924","title":"Survivors of the Holocaust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSurvivors of the Holocaust \u003c\/b\u003eaccounted for fully one-half of the wave of immigration into Israel in the aftermath of World War II. These survivors were among the first to enter the gates of the new state following its founding in 1948.\u003cbr\u003e In this important addition to our understanding of the social integration of Holocaust survivors into postwar society, Hanna Yablonka draws on a wealth of primary materials such as recently released archival material, letters, newspapers, internal army magazines, and personal interviews, to examine, from all sides, the charged encounters between survivors of the Holocaust and the veteran Jewish population in Israel.\u003cbr\u003e Yablonka details the role the new immigrants played in the War of Independence, their settlement of towns and villages abandoned by Arabs during the war, and the ways in which Israeli society accepted-and often did not accept-them into the armed forces, the kibbutz movements, and the trade unions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSurvivors of the Holocaust\u003c\/b\u003e illuminates the ways in which Israeli society grew and developed through its emotional and sometimes contentious relations with the arriving survivors and how, against all odds, the survivors of the Holocaust and their offspring became pillars of modern Israeli society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hanna Yablonka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48274230280443,"sku":"9780814796924","price":107.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/survivors-of-the-holocaust-9780814796924","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}