| International Standard Book Number |
9780374618186 (hardback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0374618186 (hardback)
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| Personal Name |
Bartov, Omer, author.
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| Title Statement |
Israel : what went wrong? / Omer Bartov.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
243 pages ; 22 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction: From liberation to oppression -- Israel's Forever War -- Antisemitism and Zionism -- The "never again" syndrome -- On the slaughter of children -- The missing Constitution -- Coda: The abyss and the promise.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The distinguished historian Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country. In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Bartov sketches the tragic transformation of Zionism, a movement that sought to emancipate European Jewry from oppression, into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism. How is it possible, he asks, that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, an event that gave legitimacy to a national home for the Jews, stands credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes? How do we come to terms with the fact that Israel's war of destruction is being conducted with the support, laced with denial and indifference, of so many of its Jewish citizens? Tracing the roots of the violent events currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied territories, Bartov tracks his country's moral tribulations and considers the origins of Zionism, the intertwining of Israel's independence with Palestinian displacement, the politics of the Holocaust, controversies over the term 'genocide,' and the uncertain future. The result is a searing and urgent critique that addresses today's debates over Zionism and the future of Israel with rigor and depth."-- Publisher's website.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Genocide.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Antisemitism.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Zionism History. Israel
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Israel-Hamas War, 2023-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Social structure Israel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Political culture Israel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Israel History.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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