Tom Segev, trans. from the Hebrew by Ronnie Hope, Doubleday, $32.50 (448p) ISBN 978-0-385-51946-5
Bringing war criminals to justice makes for endless controversy, according to this thoughtful, knotty biography of the Jewish icon and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Israeli historian and newspaper columnist Segev (1967) recaps Wiesenthal's hair-raisi
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Tom Segev, Author McGraw-Hill Companies $17.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-07-056058-1
Segev attempts to bring into focus the men who in WW II ``consented to making terror their profession,'' and show how they implemented the murder of Jews into their daily routine. The attempt does not succeed, partly because, as the author himself...
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Tom Segev, Author, Haim Watzman, Translator . Holt/Metropolitan $23 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7020-0
Segev's last book, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, was a New York Times
best book of 2000 and enjoyed bestseller status after September 11. Now Segev presents a startling and necessary view of contemporary...
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Tom Segev, Author, Haim Watzman, Translator Hill & Wang $27.5 (593p) ISBN 978-0-8090-8563-7
The Jewish community of pre-Israel Palestine had a ``less than compassionate response'' to the destruction of European Jewry, charges Segev, an Israeli journalist, in this blockbuster. Palestine's Zionist establishment stereotyped German Jewish...
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Tom Segev, Author, Haim Watzman, Translator Metropolitan Books $35 (612p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4848-3
""The British entered Palestine to defeat the Turks; they stayed there to keep it from the French; then they gave it to the Zionists because they loved `the Jews' even as they loathed them, at once admired and despised them, and above all feared...
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Tom Segev, trans. from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (816p) ISBN 978-0-374-11264-6
Israeli historian Segev (1967) provides an exhaustive biography of the country’s first prime minister. Drawing on his subject’s prolific writings and historical archives, Segev traces David Ben-Gurion’s life from his 1886 birth in the small Polish...
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