This book offers an analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, its origins, and its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. With the Holocaust developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils, each of which worked according to the logic created by the Nazis that dictated the behavior of other parties and the relations between them before and during the Holocaust. The interplay between the various parties contributed to the victims' doom first by preventing help and later preventing...

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion s role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist renaissance, of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion s Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now after the dust surrounding Israel s founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion s downfall this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures...

This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he was a major and unique exponent. Some have described Ben-Gurion's Zionism as a dream that has gone sour, or a utopia doomed to be unfulfilled. Now - after the dust surrounding Israel's founding father has settled, archives have been opened, and perspective has been gained since Ben-Gurion's downfall - this book presents a fresh look at this statesman-intellectual and his success and tragic failures...