Title: Out of the frame
Description: "Even before he wrote his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, historian Ilan Pappe was a controversial figure in Israel. In Out of the Frame, he gives a full account of his break with mainstream Israeli scholarship and its consequences. Growing up in a conventional Israeli community influenced by the utopian visions of Theodor Herzl, Pappe was barely aware of the Nakbah in his high school years. Here he traces his journey of discovery from the whispers of Palestinian classmates to his realisation that the 'enemy's' narrative of the events of 1948 was correct. After completing his thesis at Oxford University based on recently declassified documents in the early 1980s, he returned to Palestine determined to protect the memory of the Nakbah and struggle for the rectification of its evils. For the first time he gives the details of the formidable opposition he faced in Israel, including death threats fed by the media, denunciations by the Knesset and calls for him to be sacked from his post at Haifa university."--Publisher's description.
Subjects: Historiography, Zionism, Academic freedom, Arab-Israeli conflict, History, College teachers, Teachers, biography, Israel, biography, Biography, Study and teaching, Freedom of information, Israel-arab border conflicts, 1949-, Palestine, history, Pappé, ilan, College teachers--israel--biography, Academic freedom--israel, Arab-israeli conflict--study and teaching, Zionism--israel, Lc72.5.i75 p37 2010, 378.1213
Places: Palestine, Israel
People: Ilan Pappé
Time periods: 20th century, 1948-1967