Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood

ISBN-13: 9780521616461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 258 str.

Opis

A compelling analysis considers the ways Israel has used the memory of the Holocaust to define its existence and politics.

Recenzje

'Zertal successfully deconstructs a number of myths in recent Israeli historiography … and the young generation in Israel today will not have heard of many of the myths deconstructed with so much admirable gusto in this book.' The Times

Spis treści

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.