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Making Israel / edited by Benny Morris.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Influence.
- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949.
- Palestinian Arabs--Israel.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Israel--Historiography.
- Israel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (380 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Benny Morris is the founding father of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have challenged long-established perceptions about the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Their research rigorously documented crimes and atrocities committed by the Israeli armed forces, including rape, torture, and ethnic cleansing.
- Contents:
- The new historiography: Israel confronts its past / Benny Morris
- Remembering 1948: personal recollections, collective memory, and the search for "what really happened" / Mordechai Bar-On
- The history of Zionist historiography: from apologetics to denial / Yoav Gelber
- Hirbet Hizah: between remembering and forgetting / Anita Shapira
- The debate about 1948 / Avi Shlaim
- The contribution of historical geography to the historiography of the establishment of Israel / Yossi Ben-Artzi
- "Critical" and "establishment" sociology in Israel's academic community: ideological clashes or academic discourse? / Moshe Lissak
- The future of the past in Israel: a sociology of knowledge approach / Uri Ram
- Israeli historiography and the ethnic problem / Yaron Tsur
- Dialectical versus unequivocal: Israeli historiography's treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist movement attitudes toward the Holocaust / Yechiam Weitz
- A Palestinian look at the new historians and post-Zionism in Israel / Mustafa Kabha.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-354) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780472026524
- 9786612697630
- 9780472032167
- OCLC:
- 733242210
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