{"product_id":"israel-what-went-wrong-9780374618186","title":"Israel: What Went Wrong?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA leading Israeli American scholar of the Holocaust explores and explains his native country's intensifying turn toward violence and exclusion. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe distinguished historian 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 a leading scholar of the German army and the Holocaust, before turning his attention to his native country. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u003c\/i\u003e, Bartov sketches the tragic transformation of Zionism, a movement that sought to emancipate European Jewry from oppression, into a state ideology of ethno-nationalism. How is it possible, he asks, that a state founded in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, an event that gave legitimacy to a national home for the Jews, stands credibly accused of perpetrating large-scale war crimes? How do we come to terms with the fact that Israel's war of destruction is being conducted with the support, laced with denial and indifference, of so many of its Jewish citizens? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTracing the roots of the violent events currently unfolding in Israel and the occupied territories, Bartov tracks his country's moral tribulations and considers the origins of Zionism, the intertwining of Israel's independence with Palestinian displacement, the politics of the Holocaust, controversies over the term \"genocide,\" and the uncertain future. The result is a searing and urgent critique that addresses today's debates over Zionism and the future of Israel with rigor and depth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Omer Bartov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374618186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOmer Bartov \u003c\/b\u003eis the Dean's Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University and the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eAnatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Jewish Book Award; \u003ci\u003eT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eGenocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Omer Bartov \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48229806309533,"sku":"9780374618186","price":33.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_77f9c5e7-a479-4a4f-9319-cb6b4f4935af.jpg?v=1778576658","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/israel-what-went-wrong-9780374618186","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}