This week, we'll be discussing Avraham Burg's new book The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise From Its Ashes. Burg is the former Speaker of the Knesset in Israel (1999-2003), turned political dissenter, and the book is at once intensely personal-- using his own family history to think about the Jewish state today-- and significantly political. He writes in his intro post (to go up shortly):

My argument is simple -- very soon our children will live in a world without living witnesses. The Holocaust will become a memory rather than an experience. So how do we depart from experience to memory, from trauma to trust, from the past to the future?

Joining the conversation are: Philip Weiss, who blogs at www.philipweiss.org and is the author of American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps; John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago professor and author of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy; TPMCafe regulars Bernard Avishai, the author of Hebrew Republic and Jo-Ann Mort, the founder and CEO of ChangeCommunications; Daniel Levy, director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation, and a former adviser to the Israeli government; Jonathan Jacoby, a writer and former director of the Israel Policy Forum; Jeremy Ben-Ami, the executive director of jstreet.org, who served as Bill Clinton's deputy domestic policy adviser.

Stay tuned for Burg's first post.