The seventh million : the Israelis and the Holocaust

Segev, Tom, 1945- author.

Book 2000

"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 D...

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ISBN:

9780805066609

Edition:

First Owl books edition 2000

Description:

ix, 593 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Milyon ha-sheviʻi. English
7th million : the Israelis and the Holocaust

Notes:

"An Owl book."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-580) and index

Contents:

Prologue: Ka-Tzetnik's Trip
Part I Hitler: The Yekkes Are Coming
1. "The Streets Are Paved with Money"
2. "A Son of Europe"
Part II Holocaust: It Was in the Papers
3. "Rommel, Rommel, How Are You?"
4. "Happy Is the Match"
5. "A Warm Jewish Heart"
Part III Israel: The Last Jews
6. "At First I Thought They Were Animals"
7. "A Certain Distance"
8. "Six Million Germans"
9. "A Barrier of Blood and Silence"
Part IV Restitution: How Much Will We Get for Grandma and Grandpa?
10. "Add a Few Moral Arguments"
11. "Gas against Jews"
12. "The Baby Went for Free"
Part V Politics: The Kastner Affair
13. "It Is Hard for Us, the Judges of Israel"
14. "His Soul to the Devil"
15. "The Walls Are Beginning to Crack"
16. "Jeremiah the Prophet, for Example"
17. "There Is No Certainty That Our Children Will Remain Alive"
Part VI Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
18. "Let Them Hate, and Let Them Go to Hell"
19. "Six Million Times No!"
20. "Gloom Shall Not Prevail"
Part VII Growing Up: From War to War
21. "Everyone Thought about It"
22. "Hitler Is Already Dead, Mr. Prime Minister"
23. "Deep in Our Souls"
Part VIII Memory: The Struggle to Shape the Past
24. "Holocaust and Heroism"
25. "The Rest of Your Life with Monik and Frieda"
26. "What Is There to Understand? They Died and That's It"
27. "When You See a Graveyard"
28. "What Does It Do to Me?"

LCCN:

00039542

Control Number:

3292284

Other Authors:

Watzman, Haim, translator

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