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Tom Segev was born on 1 March, 1945 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, is an Israeli historian (born 1945). Discover Tom Segev's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, historian
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 1 March 1945
Birthday 1 March
Birthplace Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine
Nationality Israel

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1935

His parents, Ricarda (née Meltzer) and Heinz Schwerin were artists who had met at the Bauhaus art school and fled Nazi Germany in 1935 due to their Communist orientation (Heinz was also Jewish).

1945

Tom Segev (תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist.

He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.

Segev was born in Jerusalem.

1948

His mother was a photographer; his father, an architect and toy manufacturer, was killed on guard duty in Jerusalem in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.

Segev's first language was German; his mother never learned Hebrew beyond a basic level.

1967

Segev's history of the social and political background of the Six-Day War, 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East (2006) states that there was no existential threat to Israel from a military point of view.

Segev also doubts that the Arab neighbours would have really attacked Israel.

Still, large segments of the Israeli population had a real fear that the Egyptians and Syrians would eliminate them.

That fear pressured the Israeli government in such a way that it opted for a pre-emptive attack.

The Jordanian army's attack on West Jerusalem provided a pretext to invade East Jerusalem, according to Segev.

Even though the occupation of East Jerusalem was not politically planned, the author considers that it was always desired.

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States and author of the study Six Days of War, criticized Segev's book 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East.

Calling the author "a self-styled New Historian" and pointing to logical contradictions, he accuses Segev of "rhetorical acrobatics" and declares Segev's conclusions incorrect.

According to Oren, Segev did not properly consider the pre-war dynamics in the Arab countries, almost completely ignoring the calls of Arab politicians for the destruction of Israel and extermination of its citizens.

The reviewer also points out that Segev, in an effort to distort the balance of power, did not highlight either the assistance to the Arab states from the USSR, or the sudden support provided to them by France, "twisting his text to meet a revisionist agenda", which "undermines his attempt to reach a deeper understanding of the war".

And such an understanding, according to Oren, "is vital if Arabs and Israelis are to avoid similar clashes in the future and peacefully co-exist".

1970

He earned a BA in history and political science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a PhD in history from Boston University in the 1970s.

His sister is the German politician Jutta Oesterle-Schwerin.

Segev worked during the 1970s as a correspondent for Maariv in Bonn.

1993

In The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust (1993), Segev explores the decisive impact of the Holocaust on the identity, ideology and politics of Israel.

Although controversial, it was praised by Elie Wiesel in the Los Angeles Times Book Review.

2000

In One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate, a New York Times Editor's Choice Best Book (2000) and a recipient of a National Jewish Book Award in the Israel category, Segev describes the era of the British Mandate in Palestine (1917–1948).

2001

He was a visiting professor at Rutgers University (2001–2002), the University of California at Berkeley (2007) and Northeastern University, where he taught a course on Holocaust denial.

He writes a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz.

His books have appeared in fourteen languages.

2018

In February 2018, Segev published a biography of David Ben-Gurion titled, A State at Any Cost - The Life of David Ben-Gurion.