The seventh million : the Israelis and the Holocaust / by Tom Segev; translated by Haim Watzman.

With hard-and supercover

Includes notes and index

Cont.: Prologue: Ka-Tzetnik's Trip -- pt. I. Hitler: The Yekkes Are Coming. 1. "The Streets Are Paved with Money" 2. "A Son of Europe" -- pt. II. Holocaust: It Was in the Papers. 3. "Rommel, Rommel, How Are You?" 4. "Happy Is the Match" 5. "A Warm Jewish Heart" -- pt. III. Israel: The Last Jews. 6. "At First I Thought They Were Animals" 7. "A Certain Distance" 8. "Six Million Germans" 9. "A Barrier of Blood and Silence" -- pt. IV. Restitution: How Much Will We Get for Grandma and Grandpa? 10. "Add a Few Moral Arguments" 11. "Gas against Jews" 12. "The Baby Went for Free" -- pt. V. Politics: The Kastner Affair. 13. "It Is Hard for Us, the Judges of Israel" 14. "His Soul to the Devil" 15. "The Walls Are Beginning to Crack" 16. "Jeremiah the Prophet, for Example" 17. "There Is No Certainty That Our Children Will Remain Alive" -- pt. VI. Trial: Eichmann in Jerusalem. 18. "Let Them Hate, and Let Them Go to Hell" 19. "Six Million Times No!" 20. "Gloom Shall Not Prevail" -- pt. VII. Growing Up: From War to War. 21. "Everyone Thought about It" 22. "Hitler Is Already Dead, Mr. Prime Ministers" 23. "Deep in Our Souls" -- pt. VIII. Memory: The Struggle to Shape the Past. 24. "Holocaust and Heroism" 25. "The Rest of Your Life with Monik and Frieda" 26. "What Is There to Understand? They Died and That's It" 27. "When You See a Graveyard" 28. "What Does it Do to Me?" Other Titles: Milyon ha-sheviʻi.

A controversial and powerful work, this monumental history is the first to show the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology, and politics of Israel. Drawing on thousands of pages of newly declassified documents, as well as on diaries and interviews, journalist-historian Tom Segev tells the dramatic story of how the yishuv - the Jewish community of pre-Israel Palestine - confronted the rise of Nazi ..etc.