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Book SynopsisPostzionism first emerged in the mid-1980s in writings by historians and social scientists that challenged the dominant academic versions of Israeli history, society, and national identity. This reader provides a spectrum of views on Zionism and its place in the global Jewish world of the twenty-first century.
Table of ContentsReading Postzionism: an introduction / Laurence J. Silberstein
The new historiography: Israel confronts its past / Benny Morris
Land, labor, and the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 1882
1914 / Gershon Shafir
Introduction to The Palestinian People: A History / Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal
Postzionism studies of Israel: the first decade / Uri Ram
The identity of the victims and the victims of identity: a critique of Zionist ideology for a Postzionist age / Adi Ophir
Academic history caught in the cross-fire: a case of Israeli-Jewish historiography / Baruch Kimmerling
Ethnocracy: the politics of Judaizing Israel/Palestine / Oren Yiftachel
A first step in a difficult and sensitive road: preliminary observations on Qaadan v. Katzir / Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar
Save as Jerusalems / Ariella Azoulay
Hebrew in an Israeli Arab hand: six miniatures on Anton Shammas's Arabesques / Hannan Hever
At half mast
myths, symbols, and rituals of an emerging state: a personal testimony of an "Israeli Arab" / Anton Shammas
Arab citizens of Palestine: little to celebrate / Azmi Bishara
Rupture and return: Zionist discourse and the study of Arab Jews / Ella Shohat
History begins at home / Yehouda Shenhav
A Mizrahi call for a more democratic Israel / Pnina Motzafi-Haller
Body and territory: women in Israeli cinema / Orly Lubin
Introduction to Beyond flesh: queer masculinities and nationalism in Israeli cinema / Raz Yosef
The construction of lesbianism as nonissue in Israel / Erella Shadmi
Diaspora: generation and the ground of Jewish identity / Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin
From diaspora Jews to new Jews / Caryn Aviv and David Shneer
The charge of anti-Semitism: Jews, Israel, and the risks of public critique / Judith Butler
