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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1997 11(2):213-238; doi:10.1093/hgs/11.2.213
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Religious Zionist Responses in Mandatory Palestine to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Hava Eshkoli (Wagman)

Bar-Ilan University

The Hamizrachi-Hapoel Hamizrachi response to the Warsaw ghetto uprising exhibited a greater range of complexity than that of other Jewish movements. On the one hand, its press described the European Jewish masses as going like "sheep to the slaughter" and voiced admiring identification with the ghetto uprising. On the other, the majority of the movement leaders and its affiliated rabbis refrained from making public statements. Some members of the Hapoel Hamizrachi even expressed reservations concerning the emphasis on physical rebellion as opposed to the "sanctification of life." This spectrum of opinion is examined in light of the tension between religious Zionism's underlying sources, particularly the tension betweeen the normative religious tradition of passivity in Jewish-Gentile relations and the secular Zionist tradition of political activism, as well as the opposing legends of Jabneh and Masada.


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