The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the HolocaustThe 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 Demjanjuk--have been molded and manipulated in accordance with the ideological requirements of the state. The Seventh Million uncovers 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. |
Contents
KaTzetniks Trip | 3 |
HITLER The Yekkes Are Coming | 13 |
The Streets Are Paved with Money | 15 |
A Son of Europe | 35 |
HOLOCAUST It Was in the Papers | 65 |
Rommel Rommel How Are You? | 67 |
Happy Is the Match | 82 |
A Warm Jewish Heart | 97 |
Jeremiah the Prophet for Example | 296 |
There Is No Certainty That Our Children Will Remain Alive | 311 |
TRIAL Eichmann in Jerusalem | 321 |
Let Them Hate and Let Them Go to Hell | 323 |
Six Million Times No | 345 |
Gloom Shall Not Prevail | 367 |
GROWING UP From War to War | 385 |
Everyone Thought about It | 387 |
ISRAEL The Last Jews | 111 |
At First I Thought They Were Animals | 113 |
A Certain Distance | 123 |
Six Million Germans | 140 |
A Barrier of Blood and Silence | 153 |
RESTITUTION How Much Will We Get for Grandma and Grandpa? | 187 |
Add a Few Moral Arguments | 189 |
Gas against Jews | 211 |
The Baby Went for Free | 227 |
POLITICS The Kastner Affair | 253 |
It Is Hard for Us the Judges of Israel | 255 |
His Soul to the Devil | 276 |
The Walls Are Beginning to Crack | 285 |
Hitler Is Already Dead Mr Prime Minister | 396 |
Deep in Our Souls | 405 |
MEMORY The Struggle to Shape the Past | 419 |
Holocaust and Heroism | 421 |
The Rest of Your Life with Monik and Frieda | 446 |
What Is There to Understand? They Died and Thats It | 458 |
When You See a Graveyard | 477 |
What Does It Do to Me? | 487 |
Epilogue | 509 |
Notes | 519 |
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