Francis R. Nicosia is Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000) and author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985 and 2000), and he has co-edited several books, including Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany (2002) and Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (2004). He has edited two volumes on the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, in the series Archives of the Holocaust (1990). He was also a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Berlin from 1992 to 1993 and 2006 to 2007, and he was named the Carnegie Foundation's Vermont Professor of the Year in 2000.

'Francis Nicosia's book contains extensive archival material on one of the most controversial topics in German-Jewish history … This will ensure a place for it in every library collection on German-Jewish Studies.' The European Legacy

• 1. Introduction; 2. The age of emancipation in imperial Germany; 3. The Weimar years; 4. 1933: Nazi confusion, Zionist illusion; 5. Zionism in Nazi Jewish policy, 1934–8; 6. German Zionism, 1934–8: confrontation with reality; 7. Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934–8; 8. Zionist occupational retraining and Nazi Jewish policy; 9. From dissolution to final solution; 10. Conclusions.

Francis R. Nicosia is Raul Hilberg Distinguished Professor of Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont. He is the co-author of The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust (2000) and author of The Third Reich and the Palestine Question (1985 and 2000), and he has co-edited several books, including Medicine and Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany (2002) and Business and Industry in Nazi Germany (2004). He has edited two volumes on the Central Zionist Archives, Jerusalem, in the series Archives of the Holocaust (1990). He was also a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Berlin from 1992 to 1993 and 2006 to 2007, and he was named the Carnegie Foundation's Vermont Professor of the Year in 2000.

'Francis Nicosia's book contains extensive archival material on one of the most controversial topics in German-Jewish history … This will ensure a place for it in every library collection on German-Jewish Studies.' The European Legacy

• 1. Introduction; 2. The age of emancipation in imperial Germany; 3. The Weimar years; 4. 1933: Nazi confusion, Zionist illusion; 5. Zionism in Nazi Jewish policy, 1934–8; 6. German Zionism, 1934–8: confrontation with reality; 7. Revisionist Zionism in Germany, 1934–8; 8. Zionist occupational retraining and Nazi Jewish policy; 9. From dissolution to final solution; 10. Conclusions.