Shabtai Teveth
Ben Gurion and the Holocaust
Harcourt Brace

Teveth's important study persuasively rebuts charges that Zionist leaders, especially David Ben-Gurion, failed to make the rescue of European Jewry a top WWII priority; such accusations have been made by critics ranging from the ultra-Orthodox to leftists. The critics allege that the Jewish community's leaders in Palestine had an attitude of superiority or contempt toward diaspora Jewry and that they were indifferent to the plight of Europe's non-Zionist Jews. Using Ben-Gurion's diaries and speeches as well as correspondence, interviews and declassified documents, Israeli journalist Teveth meticulously refutes these charges.
The author, whose biography of Ben-Gurion won the 1988 National Jewish Book Award, is a compelling voice of reason in a highly politicized debate.