Bernard Avishai, the author of two excellent, but sometimes misunderstood, books on Israel and on Zionism,  is a professor of business at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and on top of the transformation of the older industrial into a new cyber-industrial economy. Avishai has written a very important

Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on

Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust

by Dan Diner

(University of California, 286 pp., $45)