Israeli Historical Revisionism
The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post-Zionist" radical left, has recently broadened to include a critique from the right. These essays...
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The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post-Zionist" radical left, has recently broadened to include a critique from the right. These essays cover diverse aspects of the critique, exploring its historiographical, political, sociological and educational ramifications.
Editor's NoteForewordHistory and National Liberation1Left and Right Post-Zionism and the Privatization of Israeli Collective Memory9Historiosophical Foundations of the Historical Strife in Israel43The Strategies of Historical Revisionism62Zionism and the Counter-Intellectuals77Zionism, Colonialism and Postcolonialism84Forgetting Europe: Perspectives on the Debate about Zionism and Colonialism99The Status of Zionist and Israeli History in Israeli Universities121History Textbooks and the Limits of Israeli Consciouness155Contributors173Index175
