HANNA YABLONKA is Lecturer in History at Ben-Gurion University, Israel.

'This book deals with the integration of thousands of survivors of the Holocaust into Israeli society in the early years of the State's existence and sums up the first ever socio-historical research done into this emotionally charged subject.' - Diora Literary Agency

• List of Illustrations Prologue Introduction Indeed 'Human Dust' Old Refugees and New Refugees Partisans, Fighters and Katztaniks (Concentration Camp Inmates) 'This Human Substance': the Survivors According to the Emissaries and the Survivors According to Themselves 'Blend in at a Low Temperature' Out of the Holocaust and into the War of Independence The Motherland - an Army and a Military Front Sabras and Gahalniks I the IDF IDF and the Holocaust These Valuable Reserves Straight Home 'There was a Heavy Fall That Year': on the Question of Kibbutz Drop-Outs The Kibbutz and Youth Aliyah Education, Occupation, Socialization 'These Young People - Their Souls are Sealed to Us' Home and Parents on the Kibbutz The Histadrut in the Shadow of the State Local Treatment of Issues Ad-hoc Mobilizing in Defence of the Spirit Summing-up - Minor Public Impact Index