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By Derek J. Penslar,Anita Shapira

The essays during this quantity, through prime students from inside and out of doors Israel, shed new gentle at the Israeli historians' controversy of the construction of the kingdom of Israel, the 1948 battle and its aftermath, Israel's angle in the direction of Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption coverage and related topics. The assault on Zionist historiography, which before everything got here from what's dubbed the "post-Zionist" radical left, has lately broadened to incorporate a critique from the ideal. those essays hide diversified facets of the critique, exploring its historiographical, political, sociological and academic ramifications.

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