ABSTRACT
The Holocaust, a unique event from any universal or national historical perspective, changed Jewish history, it isn't the only one that had a crucial impact on the history of the Jewish people. By the end of the second millennium, the Jewish people are facing the end of three major processes in the Jewish history of the last two hundred years: the process of political emancipation, the process of national self-determination, and the process of mass emigration. The "Americanization of the Holocaust" already has its followers in England and France, and its meaning is undermining the historical Jewish ethos and mythos. The rebellious desire of the Jews to maintain their national unity leads, by internal logic, to acknowledgment of the State of Israel as their center because a scattered people, without a cultural and territorial framework, needs a focal point where its parts can come together. A nation is territorial concentration, political sovereignty, cultural crystallization, lingual uniqueness, and sometimes religious singularity.
