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 Tom Segev at the Leipziger Buchmesse, 2005.
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| Born | March 1, 1945 Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine |
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| Occupation | Journalist, Historian |
Tom Segev (Hebrew: תום שגב) (born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist.
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Biography
Tom Segev was born in Jerusalem in 1945. He studied history and political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and earned a doctorate in history from Boston University in the 1970s.[1]
Professional career
He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group of historians who have challenged many of the country's traditional narratives. In the 1970s, Segev was a correspondent for Maariv in Bonn. [2] He was a visiting professor at Rutgers University (2001-2002),[3] the University of California at Berkeley (2007)[4] and Northeastern University, where he taught a course on Holocaust denial. Segev writes a column on historical curiosities for the newspaper Haaretz.
Historical theories
In The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust (2000), Segev claims that the Jews in Palestine during World War II were more interested in their own state than in saving Jews in Europe. The book is highly critical of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, and its publication created a strong reaction in Israel.
In One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate (2000), Segev contends that violent conflict between Jewish and Arab nationalism was inevitable as the two groups could not coexist given their contrary aims. Segev additionally argues that the British were pro-Zionist, and that British support for Zionism stemmed from a misguided—"and anti-Semitic—belief that Jews turned the wheels of history."[citation needed]
In his history of the Six-Day War, 1967 (2006), Segev contends that Israel considered deporting local Arabs to Iraq when the war was over as part of a population transfer. The plan was never implemented.
Other
Segev was critical of a speech given by Pope Benedict XVI at the Yad Vashem museum. [5]
Published works
- 1949: The First Israelis (Hebrew: 1984, ISBN 965-261-040-2; English: 1998, ISBN 0-8050-5896-6)
- Soldiers of Evil: The Commandants of the Nazi Concentration Camps (1988, ISBN 0-07-056058-7)
- One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate (2000, ISBN 0-316-64859-0)
- The Seventh Million: Israelis and the Holocaust (2000, ISBN 0-8050-6660-8)
- Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel (2003, ISBN 0-8050-7288-8)
- The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (2004, ISBN 1-56584-914-0)
- Israel in 1967. And the land changed its visage (Hebrew: 2005, ISBN 965-07-1370-0)
- 1967: Israel, the War and the Year That Transformed the Middle East, Metropolitan Books (2006)
References
- ^ Conversation with Tom Segev, p. 1 of 7
- ^ I didn't have the guts, Haaretz, April 28, 2009
- ^ Salon.com Books | Beyond tribalism
- ^ Conversation with Tom Segev (2007), cover page
- ^ Vatican defends Benedict from Israeli criticism
See also
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