Israeli Historical Revisionism: From Left to Right - Hardcover

"The contributions...are uniformly well written, not too weighted down with impenetrable jargon. Taken together, they shed considerable light on an intellectual phenomenon that is all the rage in Israel these days." -"Israel Affairs

The essays in this volume, by leading scholars from within and outside Israel, shed new light on the Israeli historians' controversy of the creation of the State of Israel, the 1948 War and its aftermath, Israel's attitude towards Holocaust survivors, the "melting pot" absorption policy and similar subjects. The attack on Zionist historiography, which initially came from what is dubbed the "post-Zionist" radical left, has recently broadened to include a critique from the right. These essays cover diverse aspects of the critique, exploring its historiographical, political, sociological and educational ramifications.