Making Israel

Abbreviations vii Hebrew Journal Titles Translated ix Benny Morris Introduction 1 Benny Morris The New Historiography Israel Confronts Its Past 11 Mordechai Bar-On Remembering 1948* Personal Recollections, Collective Memory, and the Search for "What Really Happened" 29 Yoav Gelber The History of Zionist Historiography From Apologetics to Denial 47 Anita Shapira Hirbet Hizah Between Remembering and Forgetting 81 Avi Shlaim The Debate about 1948 124 Yossi Ben-Artzi The Contribution of Historical Geography to the Historiography of the Establishment of Israel 147 Moshe Lissak "Critical" and "Establishment" Sociology in Israel's Academic Community Ideological Clashes or Academic Discourse? 178 Uri Ram The Future of the Past in Israel A Sociology of Knowledge Approach 202 Yaron Tsur Israeli Historiography and the Ethnic Problem 231 Yechiam Weitz Dialectical versus Unequivocal Israeli Historiography's Treatment of the Yishuv and Zionist Movement Attitudes toward the Holocaust 278 Mustafa Kabha A Palestinian Look at the New Historians and Post-Zionism in Israel 299 Bibliography 319 Contributors 355 Index 357