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Article: "New" historians, the Holocaust, and the critique of Israeli society.
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- April 1, 2003
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Israeli historian Tom Segev believes that the extermination of Jews during the Holocaust was an obvious defeat for the Zionist movement and ideology: "The Zionists were unable to convince the majority of the world's Jews to come to Palestine before the war, while that was still an option." Writing at the same period as Segev (the early 1990s), historian Moshe Zuckermann claimed that every time Holocaust survivors convey their memories through the mass media, their misery and pain turn into a commodity. Hence, those survivors lose their credibility and should be den/ed any feelings of compassion and grief.
Those two historians are hardly isolated examples. The last ...