The Independent - London, July 26th, 2001
ISRAEL SHAHAK was one of Israel's most distinctive and controversial citizens. A leading academic, a writer and a lifelong campaigner in the cause of human rights, he had something of the character of an Old Testament prophet. Once denounced by ignorant fanatics - in Britain as well as in Israel - he eventually won the respect of all but the most blinkered nationalists.
Born in 1933 into a cultured Jewish family in Warsaw, Israel Shahak was a boy of 10 when he was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Released in 1945, he emigrated soon afterwards to Palestine, wher...
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