Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Between History and Memory 1. Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Creation of the State of Israel 2. The State of Israel and the Memory of the Holocaust, 1948-1961 3. From Eichmann to Begin, 1961-1977 4. The Centrality of the Shoah, 1979 to 2000 5. 'We Are All Survivors': Israel and the Holocaust in the 21st Century Conclusion: Israel and the Holocaust, the Future of the Past Notes Index

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An authoritative history of the relationship between Zionism and the Jewish State with Nazism and the Holocaust, from Hitler’s rise to the impact of the Shoah on Israel today.

About the Author

Avinoam Patt is the Maurice Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies at New York University, USA. He is the author of Finding Home and Homeland: Jewish Youth and Zionism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (2009); co-editor (with Michael Berkowitz) of We are Here: New Approaches to the Study of Jewish Displaced Persons in Postwar Germany (2010); co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020) and co-editor of Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust (2020). His most recent book is The Jewish Heroes of Warsaw: The Afterlife of the Revolt (2021).