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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 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.

ISBN-13: 9780805066609

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Publication Date: 11-14-2000

Pages: 608

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.34(d)

Tom Segev is a columnist for Ha'aretz, Israel's leading newspaper, and author of works on the history of Israel, 1949: The First Israelis, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust, and One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. He lives in Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Prologue: Ka-Tzetnik's Trip 3
Part I Hitler: The Yekkes Are Coming
1. "The Streets Are Paved with Money" 15
2. "A Son of Europe" 35
Part II Holocaust: It Was in the Papers
3. "Rommel, Rommel, How Are You?" 67
4. "Happy Is the Match" 82
5. "A Warm Jewish Heart" 97
Part III Israel: The Last Jews
6. "At First I Thought They Were Animals" 113
7. "A Certain Distance" 123
8. "Six Million Germans" 140
9. "A Barrier of Blood and Silence" 153
Part IV Restitution: How Much Will We Get for Grandma and Grandpa?
10. "Add a Few Moral Arguments" 189
11. "Gas against Jews" 211
12. "The Baby Went for Free" 227
Part V Politics: The Kastner Affair
13. "It Is Hard for Us, the Judges of Israel" 255
14. "His Soul to the Devil" 276
15. "The Walls Are Beginning to Crack" 285
16. "Jeremiah the Prophet, for Example" 296
17. "There Is No Certainty That Our Children Will Remain Alive" 311
Part VI Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem
18. "Let Them Hate, and Let Them Go to Hell" 323
19. "Six Million Times No!" 345
20. "Gloom Shall Not Prevail" 367
Part VII Growing Up: From War to War
21. "Everyone Thought about It" 387
22. "Hitler Is Already Dead, Mr. Prime Minister" 396
23. "Deep in Our Souls" 405
Part VIII Memory: The Struggle to Shape the Past
24. "Holocaust and Heroism" 421
25. "The Rest of Your Life with Monik and Frieda" 446
26. "What Is There to Understand? They Died and That's It" 458
27. "When You See a Graveyard" 477
28. "What Does It Do to Me?" 487
Epilogue 509
Notes 519
Index 581