Israeli Historical Revisionism

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.