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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2026
Summary
Professor Omer Bartov, a leading genocide scholar, born on a kibbutz and raised in Tel Aviv, who served in the Israel Defense Forces, delves into the history of Zionism and Israel’s trajectory. He examines how Zionism evolved from a movement for Jewish emancipation into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism, exclusion, and violent domination of Palestinians.
Bartov traces the process by which Israel, established in 1948 with international support following the Holocaust, now faces acc…
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: | 28 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 262g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Anyone 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 * Guardian *
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 Mishra
More 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 *
Gripping in its moral clarity and sweeping knowledge – Michael Sfard
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 (winner of 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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