The Seventh Million The Israelis and the Holocaust,9780805066609

The Seventh Million The Israelis and the Holocaust

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780805066609
ISBN10: 0805066608
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-11-14
Publisher(s): Picador
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Summary

The Seventh Millionis 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--theExodusaffair, the Eichmann trial, the case of John Demjanjuk--have been molded and manipulated in accordance with the ideological requirements of the state.The Seventh Millionuncovers 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. Translated by Haim Watzman.

Author Biography

Tom Segev is a columnist for Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper, and author of three works on the history of Israel, 1949: The First Israelis, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. He lives in Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Prologue: Ka-Tzetnik's Trip 3(12)
PART I HITLER: The Yekkes Are Coming
``The Streets Are Paved with Money''
15(20)
``A Son of Europe''
35(32)
PART II HOLOCAUST: It Was in the Papers
``Rommel, Rommel, How Are You?''
67(15)
``Happy Is the Match''
82(15)
``A Warm Jewish Heart''
97(16)
PART III ISRAEL: The Last Jews
``At First I Thought They Were Animals''
113(10)
``A Certain Distance''
123(17)
``Six Million Germans''
140(13)
``A Barrier of Blood and Silence''
153(36)
PART IV RESTITUTION: How Much Will We Get for Grandma and Grandpa?
``Add a Few Moral Arguments''
189(22)
``Gas against Jews''
211(16)
``The Baby Went for Free''
227(28)
PART V POLITICS: The Kastner Affair
``It Is Hard for Us, the Judges of Israel''
255(21)
``His Soul to the Devil''
276(9)
``The Walls Are Beginning to Crack''
285(11)
``Jeremiah the Prophet, for Example''
296(15)
``There Is No Certainty That Our Children Will Remain Alive''
311(12)
PART VI TRIAL: Eichmann in Jerusalem
``Let Them Hate, and Let Them Go to Hell''
323(22)
``Six Million Times No!''
345(22)
``Gloom Shall Not Prevail''
367(20)
PART VII GROWING UP: From War to War
``Everyone Thought about It''
387(9)
``Hitler Is Already Dead, Mr. Prime Minister''
396(9)
``Deep in Our Souls''
405(16)
PART VIII MEMORY: The Struggle to Shape the Past
``Holocaust and Heroism''
421(25)
``The Rest of Your Life with Monik and Frieda''
446(12)
``What Is There to Understand? They Died and That's It''
458(19)
``When You See a Graveyard''
477(10)
``What Does It Do to Me?''
487(22)
Epilogue 509(10)
Notes 519(62)
Index 581

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