Fabricating Israeli History
Subtitle: The 'New Historians' (Cass Series--Israeli History, Politics, and Society)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: June 10, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780714680637
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Historiography; Middle East - Israel; History: World; History - General History; Middle East - General; Israel; Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949; History / Israel; History / Middle East; History-Middle East - General; Palestine; Great Britain; 1917-1948; Foreign relations; History; Jewish-Arab relations; Jordan
First sentence: For quite some time Israeli historiography has been subjected to a sustained assault by a cohort of self-styled 'new historians' vying to debunk what they claim to be the distorted 'Zionist narrative' of Israeli history in general, and of the Arab-Israeli conflict in particular.