Israel: What Went Wrong?
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2026
Summary
A leading genocide scholar explores the history of Zionism, Israel’s lurch towards extreme oppression and violence, and why it stands accused of crimes against humanity.
Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv, and served in the Israel Defense Forces during the Yom Kippur War. He went on to become an expert on the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country.
In Israel—What Went Wrong?, Bartov explores the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911717706 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911717707 |
| Author: | Omer Bartov |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Fern Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 40mm |
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The 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 – Pankaj MishraMore 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 * Booklist, starred review *
About The Author
Omer Bartov
Omer Bartov is the Dean’s Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. He is 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
- Genocide, the Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis
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