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The Seventh Million: Israel Confronts the Holocaust

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  • "Seventh million"@it
  • "Seventh million"@pl

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  • ""The Seventh Million is the first book to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on diaries, interviews, and thousands of declassified documents, Segev reconsiders the major struggles and personalities of Israel's past, including Ben-Gurion, Begin, and Nahum Goldmann, and argues that the nation's legacy has, at critical moments--the Exodus affair, the Eichmann trial, the case of John Demjanjuk--have been molded and manipulated in accordance with the ideological requirements of the state. The Seventh Million uncovers a vast and complex story and reveals how the bitter events of decades past continue to shape the experiences not just of individuals but of a nation."--Pub. desc."
  • "A controversial and powerful work, this monumental history is the first to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, as well as on diaries and interviews, journalist-historian Tom Segev tells the dramatic story of how the yishuv - the Jewish community of pre-Israel Palestine - confronted the rise of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust, and how Israeli society has dealt with the consequences since. With unflinching honesty, Segev examines the most sensitive and heretofore closed chapters of his country's history: the Zionists' problematic response to the Holocaust while it was happening; the new Jewish state's disturbing reception of Holocaust refugees, who found themselves despised by a society devoted to heroism and the "new man"; the revenge schemes against former Nazis, including a plot to poison the water systems of major German cities; the secret negotiations between Germany and Israel over reparations payments; and much more. As Segev masterfully traces the nation's struggles with this past - struggles fraught with emotion and saturated with politics - he also reveals how this charged legacy has at critical moments (the Exodus affair, the Eichmann trial, the Six-Day War, the case of John Demjanjuk) been molded and manipulated in accordance with the ideological requirements of the state. A vast hidden history, full of engrossing portraits of the major personalities - BenGurion, Begin, Nahum Goldmann - and rich with the details of everyday life, The Seventh Million shows the common goals and conflicting needs of which history is made, and how the bitter events of decades past continue to shape the experience not just of individuals but of a nation."

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  • "Il settimo milione : come l'Olocausto ha segnato la storia di Israele"
  • "Il settimo milione : come l'Olocausto ha segnato la storia di Israele"@it
  • "The Seventh million : the Israelis and the Holocaust"
  • "The seventh million"
  • "Le Septième million : les Israëliens et le génocide"
  • "Le septième million : [les Israéliens et le génocide]"
  • "Le septième million : les Israéliens et le génocide"
  • "Le septième million : [les Israéliens et le Génocide]"
  • "Le Septième million : [Les Israéliens et le Génocide]"
  • "Il settimo milione : come l'olocausto ha segnato la storia di Israele"
  • "The Seventh Million: Israel Confronts the Holocaust"@en
  • "Le septième million : les Israéliens et le Génocide"
  • "The seventh million : the Israelis and the holocaust"
  • "Le Septième million"
  • "Siódmy milion"
  • "Siódmy milion"@pl
  • "The seventh million : the Israelis and the Holocaust"
  • "The seventh million : the Israelis and the Holocaust"@en
  • "Le septième million"
  • "Le septième million les Israéliens et le Génocide"

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