Humanizing the Text: Israeli “New History” and the Trajectory of the 1948 Historiography

Radical History Review

Volumn 2003, Issue 86, 2003, Pages 102-122

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EID: 85050845634     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2003-86-102     Document Type: Note

References (38)

1. Laurence J. Silberstein, The Post-Zionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture (New York: Routledge, 1999), 89–126.
2. See Ilan Pappe, “Israeli Television’s Fiftieth Anniversary: ‘Tekkuma’ Series: A Post-Zionist View?” Journal of Palestine Studies 27.4 (1998): 99–105.
3. Ilan Pappe, “Critique and Agenda: The Post-Zionist Scholars in Israel,” History and Memory 7.1 (1995): 66–91.
4. Ilan Pappe, “The Decline and Fall of the Israeli Left,” Al-Ahram Weekly, September 27, 2001, 6.
5. Albert Hourani, A History of the Arab Peoples (New York: Faber and Faber, 1991).
6. Roger Owen, ed., Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (London: Macmillan, 1982); Owen, “The Economic Development in Mandatory Palestine, 1918–1948,” in The Palestinian Economy, ed. George T. Abed (London: Tauris, 1988), 13–35.
7. Ilan Pappe, Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948–1951 (London: Macmillan, 1988).
8. Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1949 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
9. Avi Shlaim, Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (Oxford: Clarendon, 1988).
10. Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York: Norton, 2000).
11. Morris and I are Israelis, and Shlaim, although for years now a British citizen, originally came from Israel.
12. The article is reproduced in Benny Morris, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 1–20.
13. Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (New York: Pantheon, 1987).
14. Ilan Pappe, The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947–1951 (London: Tauris, 1992).
15. Ilan Pappe, A Modern History of Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
16. Some noteworthy examples of these works are Baruch Kimmerling, Zionism and Territory: The Socio-Territorial Dimensions of Zionist Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983); Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor, and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); Tamar Katriel, “Remaking Place: Cultural Production in an Israeli Pioneer Settlement Museum,” History and Memory 5.2 (1993): 104–35; Azmi Bishara, “On the Question of the Palestinian Minority in Israel,” Teoriya ve-Bikoret 3 (1993): 7–21 (in Hebrew); Gil Eyal, “Between East and West: The Discourse on the ‘Arab Village’ in Israel,” Teoriya ve-Bikoret 3 (1993): 39–65; Dan Rabinowitz, “Oriental Nostalgia: The Transformation of the Palestinians into Israeli Arabs,” Teoriya ve-Bikoret 4 (1993): 141–52 (in Hebrew); Moshe Zuckerman, “The Curse of Forgetting,” TELOS 78 (1988–1989): 43–54; Idit Zartal, “The Tormented and Martyrs: The Making of National Martyrology,” Zemanim 48 (1994): 26–54; and Barbara Swirski and Marlyn P. Safir, eds., Calling the Equality Bluff: Women in Israel (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991). I have summarized the works of these researchers in Pappe, History and Memory.
17. Uri Ram, ed., Ha-Hevra Ha-Israelit: Hebetim Bikortim (Tel-Aviv: Breirot, 1992).
18. Two examples are Ilan Pappe, “Zionism as Colonialism—A Comparative View on the Mixed Colonialism in Asia and Africa,” in From Vision to Revision: A Hundred Years of Historiography of Zionism, ed. Yechiam Wietz (Jerusalem: Zalman Chazar Center, 1997), 311–344 (in Hebrew), and Pappe, “Theories of Nationalism and Their Relevance to the Case of Zionism,” Iyunim, Zionism: Contemporary Debate 6 (1996): 200–223 (in Hebrew).
19. Only recently have her works been summarized in one book in Hebrew, at a publishing house committed to Mizrachi academia: Ella Shohat, Forbidden Reminiscences: A Collection of Essays (Tel-Aviv: Kedma Publishing, 2001).
20. Ilan Pappe, “A New Agenda for the ‘New History,’” Theory and Criticism 8 (1996): 123–37 (in Hebrew).
21. With a colleague, I have written on these dialectics in the wake of these meetings: Ilan Pappe and Ilan Gur-Ze’ev, “Beyond the Destruction of the Other’s Collective Memory: Blueprints for Palestinian/Israeli Dialogue,” Theory, Culture and Society 18.2–3 (August 2003): 14–28.
22. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1979); and Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage, 1994).
23. A tension manifested eloquently in Edward W. Said, The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969–1994 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1994).
24. Ilan Pappe, “Were They Expelled? The History, Historiography, and Relevance of the Refugee Problem,” in The Palestinian Exodus, 1948–1988, ed. Ghada Karmi and Eugene Cortran (London: Ithaca, 1999), 37–62.
25. For a report on this debate, see Edward W. Said, “New History, Old Ideas,” Al-Ahram Weekly, May 21–27, 1998, 2–3.
26. Ilan Pappe, “Fear, Victimhood, Self, and Other,” The MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies 1 (2001), www.mitejmes/issues; Pappe, “Israel: Between Civic Democracy and Jewish Zealotocracy,” Journal of Palestine Studies 29.3 (2000): 33–45; Pappe, “Educational Implications of Multiculturalism in Israel: The Case of Israeli Historiography,” in Modernity, Postmodernity, and Education, ed. Ilan Gur-Zéev (Tel-Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press, 1999), 233–59 (in Hebrew); Pappe, “Were They Expelled?”; Pappe, “Education for Peace Towards the Twenty-First Century,” Studies in Education 2.2 (1997): 221–48 (in Hebrew); and Pappe, “Post-Zionist Critique: Part I: The Academic Debate,” Journal of Palestine Studies 26.2 (1997): 29–41.
27. For instance, Anita Shapira, New Jews, Old Jews (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 1997); Shlomo Ahoronson, “Zionism and Post-Zionism: The Historical-Ideological Context,” in From Vision to Revision: A Hundred Years of Historiography of Zionism, ed. Yechiam Weitz (Jerusalem: Shazar Center, 1997), 291–310.
28. Ilan Pappe, ed., The Israel-Palestine Question (London: Routledge, 1999).
29. Bishara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, 1700–1900 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995).
30. Ilan Pappe, “From the ‘Politics of Notables’ to the ‘Politics of Nationalism’: The Husayni Family,” Middle Eastern Politics and Ideas: A History from Within, ed. Pappe and Moshe Maoz (London: Tauris, 1997), 163–209.
31. Ilan Pappe, The Aristocracy of the Land: The Husayni Family (Jerusalem: Mossad Bialik, 2003) (in Hebrew).
32. Naguib Mahfouz, The Harafish (New York: Doubleday, 1988); Gore Vidal, Burr: A Novel (New York: Random House, 1973); Simon Schama, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution (New York: Viking, 1989); and Hayden White, “Response to Arthur Marwick,” Journal of Contemporary History 30.2 (1995): 233–46.
33. Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (London: Penguin, 1945), 69–70.
34. Ilan Pappe, “The Tantura Case in Israel: The Katz Research and Trial,” Journal of Palestine Studies 30.3 (2001): 19–39.
35. Ilan Pappe, “The Katz and the Tantura Affairs: History, Historiography, the Court, and the Israeli Academia,” Theory and Criticism 20 (2002): 191–218 (in Hebrew).
36. Daniel Dor, A Press under Influence (Bavel: Tel-Aviv, 2001) (in Hebrew).
37. Eugene L. Rogan and Avi Shlaim, eds., The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
38. Michael Palumbo, The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948 Expulsion of a People from their Homeland (London: Quartet Books, 1987); and Walid Khalidi, ed., All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Washington: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).