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Mr Segev, justly celebrated for his histories of formative moments of the state of Israel, is as careful a biographer as he is an historian, and he excels at teasing apart these conflicting tales. The picture that emerges is often unflattering. Wiesenthal comes across as a self-important busybody, obsessed with titles and recognition, squabbling with rivals. “Contrary to the myth he spun around himself”, Mr Segev writes, “he never operated a worldwide dragnet” but ran a virtually one-man show out of a cramped office.
Yet Mr Segev also comes to his subject’s defence when warranted. In the bitterly contested matter of the capture of Adolf Eichmann, for instance, he finds that Wiesenthal does deserve much credit for bringing the Nazi war criminal’s hideout in Argentina to the attention of the Israeli, German and American authorities, who took years to act—though he also describes Wiesenthal’s subtle manoeuvres to increase his share of the glory afterwards. As to Wiesenthal’s defence of Kurt Waldheim, the Austrian president who turned out to have lied about his war record—a controversy that cost Wiesenthal the Nobel peace prize—Mr Segev dissects his behaviour and finds it explicable, if not excusable.

A. 어휘
justly 정당하게, 공정하게. celebrated 유명한, 저명한.
formative moments 형성기(순간). biographer 傳記(전기) 작가.
excel 뛰어나다. teasing apart 헝클어진 것을 푸는.
conflict 대립하다, 모순되다. emerge 출현하다.
unflattering 아부하지 않는. comes across 정보를 누설하다, ...과 마주치다.
busybody 참견하기 좋아하는 사람. obsess 망상에 사로잡히다.
obsessed with titles and recognition 직위와 인정을 몹시 받고 싶어 하면서.
squabble 다투다. spin-spun-spun 紡績(방적)하다, 실을 잣다.
dragnet 底引網(저인망), 수사망, 包圍網(포위망).
cramped 비좁고 갑갑한. subject 연구대상, 국민, 臣下(신하).
when warranted 정당화 될 때는. bitterly 지독히.
contested matter 논쟁이 되었던 사건.
deserve much credit 많은 칭찬(공적)을 받을 만하다.
hideout 은신처. authorities 당국. subtle 교묘한, 섬세한.
manoeuvres 策略(책략), 기동작전. controversy 논쟁.
dissects 解剖(해부)하다. explicable 납득할만한.
excusable 용서할 수 있는.