Israeli youth learned about sex from books describing Nazi torture of Jews.
Evidence
That Israeli youth learned about sex and perversity, and derived sexual gratification, from books describing the manner in which Nazis tortured Jews, is all the more disturbing, considering that we are speaking about a society whose population consisted of a large proportion of Holocaust survivors and their offspring. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 718
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- QUESTION: Segev’s The Seventh Million documents this claim — worth chasing the original source data.
- SHARE: For someone interested in how Holocaust testimony percolated into Israeli popular culture and adolescent sexuality.