Tom Segev
(b.1945), is a historian and journalist. His books include The Seventh Million. The Israelis and the Holocaust (2000) and One Palestine, Complete. Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate.
Eurozine Articles
Israel's secular myth
The Holocaust after its secularization
After the Eichmann trial in 1961, the Holocaust no longer meant the European Jews' failure to defend themselves but the most recent chapter in the historical struggle against adversity. The Six Day War brought a new sense of vulnerability and cemented the Holocaust as a secular myth for the entire Israeli society. [more]





