The Generations of Israel

(CBS32-B5-0012; two-record set with albumsized book). A generally superior entry in Columbia’s expensive Legacy series. The book is almost scandalously wasteful of space, but the record, through the voices of several generations of Zionists, offers memories of Palestine’s early settlers, a shattering glimpse of the Nazi era, graphic accounts of the British blockade, and finally, the triumphant epic of our own times.