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

Humanizing the Text: Israeli "New History" and the Trajectory of the 1948 Historiography Page 102 REFLECTIONS Ilan Pappe In the late 1980s, Benny Morris and I, as part of an attempt to arouse public awareness of the existence of a counter-, non-Zionist, narrative of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, introduced the term new history into the Israeli academic discourse. It took a year or so before the newspaper Ha’aretz became interested in the subject, but after it did most of the print and electronic media in Israel soon followed. For a while, these public forums were full of lively debates about what had happened in 1948. As happens so often in an eventful state like Israel, the debate did not last long and soon gave way to other more pressing problems. However, the debate’s relevance to topical issues such as the peace negotiations with the Palestinians, the relationship between the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority in Israel, and the overall questions of the legitimacy and identity of the Jewish state ensured its return, every now and then, to the public arena and consciousness.1 And, indeed, the debate on Israel’s history in general, and the 1948 war in particular, was reactivated once more, and vigorously, during the 1998 jubilee celebration of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Radical History Review Duke University Press

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

Pappe, Ilan
Radical History Review , Volume 2003 (86) – Apr 1, 2003
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Copyright 2003 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.
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0163-6545
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10.1215/01636545-2003-86-102
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Page 102 REFLECTIONS Ilan Pappe In the late 1980s, Benny Morris and I, as part of an attempt to arouse public awareness of the existence of a counter-, non-Zionist, narrative of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, introduced the term new history into the Israeli academic discourse. It took a year or so before the newspaper Ha’aretz became interested in the subject, but after it did most of the print and electronic media in Israel soon followed. For a while, these public forums were full of lively debates about what had happened in 1948. As happens so often in an eventful state like Israel, the debate did not last long and soon gave way to other more pressing problems. However, the debate’s relevance to topical issues such as the peace negotiations with the Palestinians, the relationship between the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority in Israel, and the overall questions of the legitimacy and identity of the Jewish state ensured its return, every now and then, to the public arena and consciousness.1 And, indeed, the debate on Israel’s history in general, and the 1948 war in particular, was reactivated once more, and vigorously, during the 1998 jubilee celebration of the

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