- Imprint: Vintage
- ISBN: 9781529983999
- Length: 256 pages
- Price: £12.99
GuardianAnyone seeking an explanation of Israel’s “fall from grace” will find no better guide than this perceptive, sophisticated, erudite, elegantly written and strikingly fair-minded book
Pankaj MishraThe descent of Israel, once a refuge for the Holocaust’s surviving victims, into genocidal madness has revealed how little we know about the 'slaughter-bench' of modern history. In Israel: What Went Wrong?, Omer Bartov explores the most horrifying and vexing calamity of our time with a rare combination of painful personal intimacy and impeccable scholarship. Anyone disturbed and frightened by our current moral and intellectual morass should read it
Booklist, starred reviewMore than two years on from the horrific Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, [Bartov] tries to understand how a nation founded in response to an epoch-defining genocide became a perpetrator of the same terrible crime against Palestinians in Gaza . . . For anyone seeking to understand the tragedies of the last two years, Israel: What Went Wrong? is an essential read
Michael SfardGripping in its moral clarity and sweeping knowledge
About Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov is the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University and the author of many books, including Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz, which won the National Jewish Book Award, Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past and Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel–Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis.
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