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Article: Israel's Culture of Martyrdom.(Death and the Nation: History, Memory, Politics; In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II)(Book Review)
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- The Nation
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- January 10, 2005
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Death and the Nation: History, Memory, Politics. By Idith Zertal. Dvir. 315 pp. In Hebrew.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust: The Struggle Between Jews and Zionists in the Aftermath of World War II. By Yosef Grodzinsky, with a foreword by Rabbi Michael Lerner. Common Courage. 279 pp. Paper $19.95.
Nations like to imagine themselves as unique, but one belief they have in common is that it is noble to die in their name. Death and redemption are the themes of almost every form of patriotism. In the case of Israel, however, the connection between nationalism and death is especially visceral. For the Jewish state is a nation that emerged from the ashes of a ...