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Le-avret et Sherlok Holmes: Parshiya safrutit ideologit me-tkufat ha-Mandat [Hebraizing Sherlock Holmes: a literary and ideological affair from the British Mandate period] Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Omri Asscher
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Between moral and commercial debt: Israel, Holocaust compensation, and the Conference on German External Debt, 1951–52 Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Jacob Tovy
In early March 1951, the Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer, announced to the three Western powers occupying his country – the United States, Great Britain, and France – that his governmen...
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From narratives to history: new perspectives on mass emigration of Jews from Islamic countries in the early 1950s Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-18 Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Contested narratives of the mass Jewish immigration from Arab countries to the young state of Israel emphasize Israel’s central role in this episode, positively and negatively. However, new studies...
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Expulsion and return: the Via Dolorosa of the Gdērāt al-Ṣāneʿ tribal group as reflected in two poems by a Negev Bedouin poet Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-10 Kobi Peled
This article explores the poetic expressions of a traumatic event experienced by poet Ibrāhīm Abū Ṣyām of the Gdērāt al-Ṣāneʿ tribal group, which was expelled in 1952 from al-Lgiyyeh in the norther...
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Toda’at Mishna, Toda’at Mikra: Tzfat ve-ha-tarbut ha-Tzionit [Mishna consciousness, biblical consciousness: Safed and Zionist culture] Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Yair Wallach
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Pedagogical challenges of Israel studies in India Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 P. R. Kumaraswamy
Israel Studies in India faces five specific challenges. The presence of a small Jewish population and weaker Zionist sentiments; the absence of Judeo-Christian tradition and unfamiliarity with Jewi...
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No longer ladies and gentlemen. Gender and the German-Jewish migration to Mandatory Palestine Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Katarzyna Czerwonogóra
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Israel Studies in France Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Samy Cohen, Alain Dieckhoff, Karine Lamarche, Caroline Rozenholc-Escobar, Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache
The aim of this article is to analyze how Israel Studies emerged progressively in France as a field of research, which became partly institutionalized, although not as strongly as in other European...
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Ha-mahshava ha-politit shel David Ben-Gurion: Mivhar mi-maamarav [The political thought of David Ben Gurion: a selection] Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Avi Shilon
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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The only woman in the room: Golda Meir and her path to power Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 41, No. 2, 2023)
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung and the limits of normalization: on the history and politics of Israel Studies in Germany Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Johannes Becke, Jenny Hestermann
While Israeli academia houses numerous research centers that explore German history and culture, German universities stand out for the near absence of Israel Studies as an institutionalized discipl...
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Israel studies in the UK: the history of an idea Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Peter Bergamin
Through oral testimony from the major figures in the discipline, this article traces the narrative- and intellectual history, and development of the discipline of Israel Studies in the United Kingd...
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Israel Studies collections in research libraries and archives outside of Israel: a survey Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Rachel Leket-Mor, Uri Kolodney, Joseph Galron-Goldschläger
This comparative, mixed-methods study explores various definitions of Israel Studies as a discipline through their manifestations in library and archival collections. A survey and a follow-up inter...
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Israel studies “Italian style”: between academic decentralization and disciplinary autonomization Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alon Helled
Israel Studies is a rather recent and fragmented discipline in the Italian academic system. Nonetheless, the interest in Israel’s geopolitical history has progressively emerged from Middle East and...
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“In no man’s land:” failures in responding to police misconduct in Israel (1948-1951) Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Nomi Levenkron, Oded Ron
This article deals with a crime whose seriousness is difficult to overestimate: The rape of a Palestinian woman, who was being held for deportation the next day from Israel, by four policemen in Au...
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Political violence, political ends: the story of the Zealots’ underground Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Maya Mark
This article sheds light on a historical episode that has garnered minimal academic focus: the emergence and activities of Brit Ha-Kanaim (Alliance of the Zealots) a religious underground active in...
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“We are all ready to fall”: creation of the norm of acceptance and restrained mourning in Davar during the Great Arab Revolt (1936-1939) Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Devorah Giladi, Yossi Goldstein
The period of the Arab Revolt in Palestine (1936–1939) marked a turning point in the Yishuv’s attitude toward the fatalities of its struggle with the Palestinians. This article examines this change...
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Anti-Arab riots in Israel and the Mizrahi question, 1948-67 Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Hillel Cohen
This article addresses anti-Arab riots that occurred in Israel during the “Little Israel” period − 1948–1967 – and the discourse around them, both in the media and and behind the scenes. It sheds l...
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Dear Palestine: a social history of the 1948 war, Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Derek Penslar
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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A history of the administration of courts in Israel Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Yair Sagy, Guy Lurie, Amnon Reichman
ABSTRACT This article presents the history of the administration of courts in Israel, from 1948 to circa 1995, unearthing a series of tensions that undergirded the management of Israeli courts throughout their history. It illustrates that judiciary-executive tensions, as well as intra-judiciary and other extra-judiciary tensions, informed the trajectory of Israeli court administration. Furthermore
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Is “work the path to rehabilitation”?: The Shata prison uprising (1958) and its effect on detention policy in Israel Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Nomi Levenkron
ABSTRACT Incarceration facilities are microcosms of the society within which they exist, mirroring its social, economic, ethnic, and national divisions that continue to manifest within them, albeit in different ways. Yet, we rarely have a chance to take even a quick look at what takes place within the prison walls, which most often remains hidden. Prisoners’ revolts and mass escapes produce both a
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Israel Studies in Poland, Czech Republic, and Germany: paths of development, dynamics, and directions of changes Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Joanna Dyduch, Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Olaf Glöckner
In recent years, Israel Studies have been gaining momentum in Europe, especially in the Central and Eastern parts of the continent. The aim of this paper is to scrutinize the genesis and evolutiona...
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Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era, 1908-1914: claiming the homeland Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Or Pitusi
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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How to build a country? Philanthropy and capitalist methods in the financing of Zionism Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Adam Hefetz
ABSTRACT In this article, I identify two ideological currents within the Zionist movement, a philanthropic one and a capitalist one. Institutionally, the philanthropic current manifested through Keren Ha-Yesod and the capitalist one through the two Zionist banks, the Jewish Colonial Trust and the Anglo-Palestine Company. Despite the different ideologies and modes of operation associated with these
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Heroes in search of homes: housing demobilized soldiers in early statehood Jerusalem Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Eldad Brin
ABSTRACT The housing shortage faced by demobilized soldiers after the 1948 War was especially grave in Jerusalem, where they had to compete with refugees, immigrants, and civil servants over abandoned properties. Public construction of new homes for them in the city was belated, limited, and slow when compared to other localities in Israel. Despite public sympathy and institutional aid, organizational
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Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Russian years, 1900-1925 Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Amir Goldstein
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 40, No. 2, 2022)
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Land, water and the changing Dead Sea environment: A microhistory of Kibbutz Ein Gedi Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Nir Arielli
ABSTRACT The article examines the changing relationship Kibbutz Ein Gedi has developed with its environment over a period of more than 60 years. It focuses on two interrelated themes: the considerations that influenced decisions on how best to use the land around the kibbutz, the freshwater at its disposal and the labor of its members; and the community’s changing self-image and “environmental imaginary
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“A Day of Blood and Valor”: terrorism and social tensions in 1970s Israel Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Ori Yehudai
On June 13, 1974, four Palestinian militants penetrated kibbutz Shamir in northern Israel, killing three women before being killed by an ad-hoc force of kibbutz members. The attack on Shamir genera...
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Failed expectations of middle-class migrants and the Zionist hegemonic narrative: Jewish-Argentine returnees from Israel in the 1960s Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Adrián Krupnik
ABSTRACT In 1963, a total of 4,500 Argentines immigrated to Israel. Most were from the middle or lower middle classes and had a Jewish and Zionist education, seen as an advantage for adaptation in the new country. However, they had been driven primarily by economic factors, and during Israel’s recession in 1966 a substantial portion of them returned to Argentina. In order to understand the migrant
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Gates of justice and exchange rates: speculative labor in the book of men Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-15 Tahel Frosh
ABSTRACT Since the beginning of the twenty-first century in Israel – and with growing intensity since the outbreak of the 2011 social protests – a new neoliberal economical subject has appeared in Hebrew literature. In this new subjectivity, self-identity is formed and understood by its relations to work. In this article I will follow the new working subject as it is revealed in Nano Shabtai’s novel
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Haredi labor market integration policy in a neoliberal environment Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Lee Cahaner, Asaf Malchi
ABSTRACT Over the past several decades, welfare states across the developed Western world, including Israel, have adopted differential employment policies for disadvantaged marginal populations that perform poorly in the labor market and are underrepresented in it. The intensive and rapid shift from Keynesian welfare policy to a more economical and efficient neoliberal approach sparked great turbulence
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Since the mid-1980s: a value shift in work in Israel - from labor to employment Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Yair Barak
ABSTRACT During the first two decades of statehood, Israeli labor policy advocated for full employment by creating new workplaces or work relief in order to absorb the mass waves of immigration. The dominant ideology was that of work ethos – work was perceived as a human and social value; therefore, Israelis believed that money should be paid for work and not for unemployment. In the beginning of the
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Labor in Israeli culture Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Yaron Peleg, Eran Kaplan, Oded Nir
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 40, No. 1, 2022)
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Class performativity, modernity and the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi divide the Jewish urban middle classes of Egypt in Israel 1948-1967 Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Liat Alon
ABSTRACT In the analysis of Israeli society and the experience of immigration and integration into it in the first decades after its establishment in 1948, an Ashkenazi-Mizrahi dichotomy became prevalent, and the explanatory efficacy of other contributing factors went mostly unnoticed. The academic, institutional and public discourses that focused on those among the Mizrahi Jews, who struggled to fit-in
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Constructing a Classed Community in Kiryat Eilon (H-300) in Holon: A Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-09 Rami Adut, Dani Filc
ABSTRACT This paper examines H-300 or Kiryat Eilon: a neighborhood in the city of Holon that exemplifies Mizrahi mobility into the new middle class. Following Cohen and Leon’s seminal insights on the Mizrahi middle class, the paper analyses life stories and other daily practices of H-300 residents in order to assess their (ethno-)class identities. The picture seems to be far more complex than the one
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Billion dollar madness: examining the paradox of financial satire through the 1980s economic crisis in Israeli comedy films Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Ido Rosen
ABSTRACT Can anti-capitalist satire exist within show business, or is this an oxymoron? How can mainstream films claim to be socially conscious and rebellious, when at the same time they are products of an industry which aim to appeal to the masses and maximize profits? These questions were recently raised in relation to the popular and critical success of Hollywood hits like The Big Short and The
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“Mizrahi religion is for laymen custom”: Construction of an ethnoreligious hierarchy in boarding yeshiva high schools in Israel in the 1980s Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Erez Trabelsi
ABSTRACT Underpinned by Bourdieuian theory, specifically, Bourdieu’s argument in Distinction (1984), this study investigates the instituting of an ethnoreligious social order in yeshiva high schools in Israel in the 1980s, as expressed in the personal accounts of Mizrahi graduates of these schools. The research findings indicate that the educational staff of the yeshiva high schools, being mostly Ashkenazi
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Correction Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-21
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2021)
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The Palestinians in the 1948 War and recent historiography in Israel Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Itamar Radai
ABSTRACT The 1948 War was one of the most formative events in both Israeli and Palestinian history. Recent years have seen a transformation in Israeli historiography relating to this war, with the emergence of three intertwined research orientations: social history, the study of Palestinian society, and microhistory. The two books at the center of this article correspond well with the trend of growing
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The Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem: A prism of the Jewish-Israeli identity discourse Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-05 Hilda Nissimi
ABSTRACT In this article I look at the presentation of the Holocaust in the Israel Museum Jerusalem (IMJ) from its inception with special regard to the permanent exhibition after its refurbishment in 2010. It provides us with a “text” on Jewish identity of importance commensurate with the respect that the Israel Museum commands within the Jewish-Israeli cultural scene. I will do so by closely reading
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Israeli Independence Day, 1967: Mixed Messages on the Eve of War Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Laura Zittrain Eisenberg
ABSTRACT Israel’s 19th Independence Day preceded the Six-Day War by three weeks. Amid worsening regional tensions, the Eshkol government supplemented traditional diplomacy and deterrence by modifying Independence Day rituals with the intention of deterring further Arab provocations; reassuring Israelis of their leaders’ competency; leading the West to blame the Arabs, should war erupt; and asserting
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The Joshua Generation: Israeli occupation and the Bible Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Anne Perez
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2021)
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On generation citizenship: The new Russian protest among young immigrant adults in Israel Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Anna Prashizky
ABSTRACT This article describes an emerging social protest movement among Generation 1.5 of Russian speakers who immigrated as older children or adolescents and came of age in Israel. It examines the generation, gender, and class aspects of the new social and cultural activism among Russian Israelis, while drawing on the concept of generation citizenship. Contrary to the civic conformism of their parent’s
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Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-03 Ahmad Al-Kurdi
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2021)
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Moving through conflict: dance and politics in Israel Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Hannah Kosstrin
Published in Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2021)
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It was good to die in the twenties: Trumpeldor’s last words in their historical context Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Amit Assis
ABSTRACT Trumpeldor’s last words, “it is good to die for our country,” have been celebrated since his death as a fulfillment of Zionist ideals, but were devaluated as decades went by. I contend that this change is not only a change of evaluation, which followed a change in Zionist pioneering ideology, but primarily a change in interpretation. In the historical context of the 1920s, the sentence had
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From Aleppo to Tel Hai: The events of Tel Hai and the new order in Greater Syria in 1919-1920 Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-19 Mustafa Abbasi
ABSTRACT The study of the 1920 Tel Hai incident from a purely local perspective does not provide an accurate, in-depth explanation for the outbreak of violence in the Huleh Valley. This article contextualizes this incident within the events occurring in Syria and Lebanon during 1919–1920. It does so in order to understand the extent to which the Tel Hai incident was a local event, related to the Zionist-Palestinian
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Tel Hai, 1920-2020: A new look at overlooked perspectives Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Amir Goldstein, Yael Zerubavel
(2021). Tel Hai, 1920-2020: A new look at overlooked perspectives. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 39, New Perspectives on Tel Hai: History and Memory; Guest editors: Amir Goldstein and Yael Zerubavel, pp. 1-12.
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Trumpeldor in Israeli popular culture: from a legendary national hero to a multifaceted icon Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-25 Yael Zerubavel, Roni Sarig
ABSTRACT The article examines popular texts that developed in response to the canonical repertoire on Tel Hai and Trumpeldor since the 1970s. In spite of the erosion of the heroic myth, Trumpeldor’s iconic status has continued to inspire the creation of new texts in Israeli popular culture, including songs, jokes, cartoons, satirical programs, and advertisements. Drawing on symbols and motifs associated
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New Hebrew heroines? The inclusion and exclusion of Dvora Drachler and Sara Chizik in the Tel Hai Myth Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Tamar Hager, Smadar Sinai
ABSTRACT Among those who died in the battle at Tel Hai were two young women, Dvora Drachler and Sarah Chizik. Although they were the first women to be killed in a Yishuv battle, and were treated with honor immediately after their death, their commemoration as female warriors were never established, and their public memory was faded. This article explores the way in which Drachler and Chizik, negotiated
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War and peace of Iosif Trumpeldor: From zionist hagiography to cultural history Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern
ABSTRACT Petrovsky-Shtern’s essay revisits three aspects of Yosef Trumpeldor’s life domineering his biographic and hagiographic narratives. Using heretofore unexplored military archival sources, the author allows more accurately to reconstruct Trumpeldor’s army career, debunk the myth of his Russian officer rank, and contextualize the impact of the Russian army experience on his Zionist endeavors.
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The Zionist pilgrimage to Tel Hai: between communitas and conflict Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Amir Goldstein
ABSTRACT The pilgrimage to Tel Hai, which was made by Zionist youth movements during the Mandate period, forged a dynamic and vibrant arena, fostering the encounter of youths with a national sacred site. This annual rite instantiates the two main approaches in the study of pilgrimage. The journey to Tel Hai and the participation in the commemoration ceremonies increased intra-movement fraternity and
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Israel’s regime untangled: Between democracy and apartheid Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Ian S. Lustick
(2021). Israel’s regime untangled: Between democracy and apartheid. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 39, New Perspectives on Tel Hai: History and Memory; Guest editors: Amir Goldstein and Yael Zerubavel, pp. 174-176.
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Between the battles of Tel Hai and Samakh: Britain’s security policy in north-east Palestine in the Spring of 1920 Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Giora Goodman
ABSTRACT This article considers the British response to the Tel Hai affair, within the wider setting of British security policy in north-east Palestine. It sheds light on lesser-known aspects of British policy in the period such as the extensive use of Indian forces, the development of the region’s transport infrastructure, and the British military administration’s general concern about the threat
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Partitioning Palestine: British policymaking at the end of Empire Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-17 Matthew Hughes
(2021). Partitioning Palestine: British policymaking at the end of Empire. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 39, New Perspectives on Tel Hai: History and Memory; Guest editors: Amir Goldstein and Yael Zerubavel, pp. 171-174.
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Partitions: A transnational history of twentieth-century territorial separatism Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Elizabeth E. Imber
(2021). Partitions: A transnational history of twentieth-century territorial separatism. Journal of Israeli History: Vol. 39, New Perspectives on Tel Hai: History and Memory; Guest editors: Amir Goldstein and Yael Zerubavel, pp. 169-171.
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Introduction: Amos Oz’s two pens Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Arie M. Dubnov
ABSTRACT Often regarded as the country’s leading intellectual, the Israeli novelist and political essayist Amos Oz (1939–2018) was fond of describing himself as using two different pens, the first used to write work of prose and fiction, and the other – to criticize the government and advocate for a political change. The idea behind this special issue is to revisit the two pens parable by bringing
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Amos Oz: A humanist in the darkness Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-18 David Ohana
ABSTRACT The article examines Amos Oz’s political and social outlook through four topoi that constitute his books, articles and correspondence: The first concerns his dialectics with Israel’s Mediterranean character, from his affinity to Albert Camus to his treatment of Ashdod as a metaphor for Mediterraneanism; the second is the Zionist-crusader analogy in the literature and poetry of his contemporaries
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Amos Oz: The lighthouse Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-12 Yigal Schwartz
ABSTRACT Yigal Schwartz, Amos Oz’s long-time editor and a prominent Oz scholar, reflects on the author’s impact on Israel culture.
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Love, compassion, and longing Journal of Israeli History (IF 0.5) Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Nurith Gertz
ABSTRACT The year was 1973 when I read the story Late Love by Amos Oz, and underlined the following passage: […] something must, absolutely must, reveal itself, a formula, a dazzling system, a purpose, surely it is inconceivable that you will go from birth to death without experiencing a single flash of illumination, without encountering a single ray of sharp light, without something happening, surely