Israel's Holocaust and the Politics of Nationhood - Paperbackby Idith Zertal (Author), Charles Tripp (Editor), Julia A. Clancy Smith (Editor) The ghost of the Holocaust is ever present in Israel, in the lives and nightmares of the survivors and in the absence of the victims. In this compelling and disturbing analysis, Idith Zertal, a leading member of the new generation of revisionist historians in Israel, considers the ways Israel has used the memory of the Holocaust to define and legitimize its existence and