Israel, a Personal History

A Personal History

By: Goran Rosenberg

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Paperback | 7 October 2025

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Combining poignant memoir and historical research, a son of Holocaust survivors grapples with the dream of Zionism and its consequences.

Combining poignant memoir and historical research, a son of Holocaust survivors grapples with the dream of Zionism and its consequences.

Israel- A Personal History takes off where G ran Rosenberg's internationally acclaimed and award-winning childhood memoir, A Brief Stop on the Road from Auschwitz, ends. After his father's suicide in 1960 in a small industrial town in Sweden, the remainder of the family, a single mother with two children, emigrates to Israel. At first fully absorbed into the world of pioneer Zionism, enchanted by its visions, formed by its ethos, Rosenberg would eventually embark on a journey of discovery among betrayed ideals, buried stories, false promises, and erased villages.

The result is a deeply personal, painstakingly researched, and beautifully written exploration of the contradictory visions that went into the Zionist project, as well as of the ethnic violence, oppression, discrimination, and dispossession caused by its realization. This book is both an exciting history of ideas and the political autobiography of a Jewish European intellectual, a child of dreams and disillusionments, an astute observer of our times.

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