gray zone of collaboration and the Israeli courtroom

Analyzes two Israeli collaborator trials that were conducted in the early 1950s. Moshe Puczyc and Mordechai Goldstein were Jewish residents of the Polish town of Ostrowiec Both beat fellow Jews, but Puczye was acquitted of all charges, whereas Goldstein was found guilty on some charges. Brot argues that the judges were unable to imagine the Nazi- created, inverted moral system from which the defendants and witnesses came. Israeli courts were were increasingly caught on the horns of a dilemma, explored in this chapter