The ghost of the Holocaust is ever present in Israel, in the lives and nightmares of the survivors and in the absence of the victims. In this compelling analysis, Idith Zertal considers how Israel has used the memory of the Holocaust to define and legitimize its existence and politics.
The ghost of the Holocaust is ever present in Israel, in the lives and nightmares of the survivors and in the absence of the victims. In this compelling analysis, Idith Zertal considers how Israel has used the memory of the Holocaust to define and legitimize its existence and politics.
Idith Zertal is an Israeli historian and essayist, the author of many books and articles on Jewish, Zionist and Israeli history. She is currently teaching at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her works include From Catastrophe to Power: Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel (1998), and Lords of the Land: The War over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007 (co-authored with Akiva Eldar, 2007). Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood has been published in eight languages.
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Foreword Tony Judt 1. The sacrificed and the sanctified 2. Memory without rememberers 3. From the people's hall to the wailing wall 4. Between 'love of the world' and 'love of Israel' 5. Yellow territories.
Foreword Tony Judt 1. The sacrificed and the sanctified 2. Memory without rememberers 3. From the people's hall to the wailing wall 4. Between 'love of the world' and 'love of Israel' 5. Yellow territories.
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