Gabriel Piterberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 107438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabriel Piterberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabriel |
| FAMILY NAME | Piterberg |
| SIGNATURE | PITERBERG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Israeli Sociology's Young Hegelian: Gershon Shafir and the Settler-Colonial Framework
In April 2014, the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) convened a conference titled “The Settler Colonial Paradigm: Debating Gershon Shafir's Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Its 25th Anniversary.” This essay emanates from the conference. I first chart the dialectical emergence of Shafir's thought out of Israeli sociology, and then gauge its impact on the growing pr…
Wakefield, Marx, and the world turned inside out
This article focuses on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of colonization, on Karl Marx's response to it, and on the role that settler colonialism as a global phenomenon played in shaping their thought. Marx's rejoinder to Wakefield's interpretation of an episode in the early colonization of Western Australia, when servants had deserted a wealthy colonist, was a foundational moment in the development of his general argument. Wakefield's reaction t…
Public Intellectuals and Conscious Pariahs: Hannah Arendt, Edward Said and a Common State in Palestine-Israel
In late nineteenth-century Europe, a distinct, secular socio-political type appeared: the conscious pariah. This essay traces the genealogy of the conscious pariah. Starting from Bernard Lazare and then comparing public intellectuals Hannah Arendt and Edward Said, it argues that the latter, too, can be interpreted as a conscious pariah. Whilst differences are not ignored, the essay highlights the shared political and scholarly insights Arendt and…
Euro-Zionism and its Discontents
Engagement with the work of Hebrew poet Yitzhak Laor on the origins and function of the new Holocaust remembrance culture in Germany, Italy and France. What relation does this bear to parallel developments in Israel and the United States
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experiences since the Middle Ages
Literature of Settler Societies: Albert Camus, S. Yizhar and Amos OZ
This article is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the literature is related to the material context within which it was produced, and the socio…
Settlers and their States
Converts to Colonizers
Zion’s Rebel Daughter
Principally known for works on totalitarianism and the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt’s powerful and prophetic critiques of the Zionist project, written in the 1940s, have rarely been discussed. Gabriel Piterberg tracks the evolution of this brave and independent thinker
The Founding Myths of Israel
Dieckhoff: The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGabriel PiterbergGabriel Piterberg, an associate professor of history at UCLA, is the author of An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (University of California Press, 2003) and currently is writing a book, Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
Hannah Arendt in Tel Aviv
Postcards from Palestine
Erasing the Palestinians
How the founding myths of Israel dictated conceptual removal of Palestinians, during and after physical removal. The invention of ‘retroactive transfer’ and ‘present absentees’ as the glacial euphemisms of ethnic cleansing
A: Reviews: general
PALESTINIAN PEASANTS AND OTTOMAN OFFICIALS: RURAL ADMINISTRATION AROUND SIXTEENTH‐CENTURY JERUSALEM. By Amy Singer. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. THE PASHA'S PEASANTS: LAND, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN LOWER EGYPT, 1740–1858. By Kenneth M. Cuno. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 27.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 295 pp., tables, appendices, index. £35.00 (hb). SOCIALISM AND NAT…
Domestic orientalism: The representation of ‘oriental’ Jews in Zionist/Israeli historiography
(1996). Domestic orientalism: the representation of ‘oriental’ Jews in Zionist/Israeli historiography. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 125-145
Politics in the Middle East
A. reviews: General
WARFARE IN THE LATIN EAST, 1192–1291. By CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series, 17.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv, 290pp. 7 figures, 9 plates. MINORITES RELIGIEUSES DANS L'ESPAGNE MEDIEVALE [ = Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée, 63–4]. Aix‐en‐Provence, Edisud, 1992. 292 pp. 150FF. THE TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN MEDIEVAL CAIRO. By JONATHAN BERKEY. Princeton, Princeton…
Speech Acts and Written Texts: A Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Historiographic Episode
Gabriel Piterberg, Speech Acts and Written Texts: A Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Historiographic Episode, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 387-418
The Formation of an Ottoamn Egyptian Elite in the 18th Century
The conquest of the Mamluk sultanate by the Ottoman Empire brought into confrontation two centers in the history of Islamic civilization. One, Asia Minor and southeast Europe, was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The other, Egypt, had been the core of the Mamluk sultanate for 21⁄2 centuries (1250–1517). Both states were dominated by Turkish-speaking elites based on the institution of military slavery. In both cases this slave-recruited manpower …
Domestic orientalism: The representation of ‘oriental’ Jews in Zionist/Israeli historiography
(1996). Domestic orientalism: the representation of ‘oriental’ Jews in Zionist/Israeli historiography. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 125-145
Wakefield, Marx, and the world turned inside out
This article focuses on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of colonization, on Karl Marx's response to it, and on the role that settler colonialism as a global phenomenon played in shaping their thought. Marx's rejoinder to Wakefield's interpretation of an episode in the early colonization of Western Australia, when servants had deserted a wealthy colonist, was a foundational moment in the development of his general argument. Wakefield's reaction t…
The Formation of an Ottoamn Egyptian Elite in the 18th Century
The conquest of the Mamluk sultanate by the Ottoman Empire brought into confrontation two centers in the history of Islamic civilization. One, Asia Minor and southeast Europe, was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The other, Egypt, had been the core of the Mamluk sultanate for 21⁄2 centuries (1250–1517). Both states were dominated by Turkish-speaking elites based on the institution of military slavery. In both cases this slave-recruited manpower …
Literature of Settler Societies: Albert Camus, S. Yizhar and Amos OZ
This article is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the literature is related to the material context within which it was produced, and the socio…
Israeli Sociology's Young Hegelian: Gershon Shafir and the Settler-Colonial Framework
In April 2014, the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) convened a conference titled “The Settler Colonial Paradigm: Debating Gershon Shafir's Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Its 25th Anniversary.” This essay emanates from the conference. I first chart the dialectical emergence of Shafir's thought out of Israeli sociology, and then gauge its impact on the growing pr…
Speech Acts and Written Texts: A Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Historiographic Episode
Gabriel Piterberg, Speech Acts and Written Texts: A Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Historiographic Episode, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 387-418
The Formation of an Ottoamn Egyptian Elite in the 18th Century
The conquest of the Mamluk sultanate by the Ottoman Empire brought into confrontation two centers in the history of Islamic civilization. One, Asia Minor and southeast Europe, was the center of the Ottoman Empire. The other, Egypt, had been the core of the Mamluk sultanate for 21⁄2 centuries (1250–1517). Both states were dominated by Turkish-speaking elites based on the institution of military slavery. In both cases this slave-recruited manpower …
Speech Acts and Written Texts: A Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Historiographic Episode
Gabriel Piterberg, Speech Acts and Written Texts: A Reading of a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Historiographic Episode, Poetics Today, Vol. 14, No. 2, Cultural Processes in Muslim and Arab Societies: Medieval and Early Modern Periods (Summer, 1993), pp. 387-418
Politics in the Middle East
A. reviews: General
WARFARE IN THE LATIN EAST, 1192–1291. By CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, fourth series, 17.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiv, 290pp. 7 figures, 9 plates. MINORITES RELIGIEUSES DANS L'ESPAGNE MEDIEVALE [ = Revue du Monde Musulman et de la Méditerranée, 63–4]. Aix‐en‐Provence, Edisud, 1992. 292 pp. 150FF. THE TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN MEDIEVAL CAIRO. By JONATHAN BERKEY. Princeton, Princeton…
A: Reviews: general
PALESTINIAN PEASANTS AND OTTOMAN OFFICIALS: RURAL ADMINISTRATION AROUND SIXTEENTH‐CENTURY JERUSALEM. By Amy Singer. (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. THE PASHA'S PEASANTS: LAND, SOCIETY, AND ECONOMY IN LOWER EGYPT, 1740–1858. By Kenneth M. Cuno. (Cambridge Middle East Library, 27.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992. 295 pp., tables, appendices, index. £35.00 (hb). SOCIALISM AND NAT…
Domestic orientalism: The representation of ‘oriental’ Jews in Zionist/Israeli historiography
(1996). Domestic orientalism: the representation of ‘oriental’ Jews in Zionist/Israeli historiography. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 125-145
Erasing the Palestinians
How the founding myths of Israel dictated conceptual removal of Palestinians, during and after physical removal. The invention of ‘retroactive transfer’ and ‘present absentees’ as the glacial euphemisms of ethnic cleansing
Postcards from Palestine
Hannah Arendt in Tel Aviv
Dieckhoff: The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGabriel PiterbergGabriel Piterberg, an associate professor of history at UCLA, is the author of An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play (University of California Press, 2003) and currently is writing a book, Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel
The Founding Myths of Israel
Zion’s Rebel Daughter
Principally known for works on totalitarianism and the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt’s powerful and prophetic critiques of the Zionist project, written in the 1940s, have rarely been discussed. Gabriel Piterberg tracks the evolution of this brave and independent thinker
Converts to Colonizers
Settlers and their States
Transregional and Transnational Families in Europe and Beyond: Experiences since the Middle Ages
Literature of Settler Societies: Albert Camus, S. Yizhar and Amos OZ
This article is a close, yet contextual, reading of two pairs of literary texts: autobiographical novels by Albert Camus and S. Yizhar; and short stories by Camus and Amos Oz. On this basis a conversation is created between the field of comparative settler colonialism on the one hand, and comparative literature on the other. Reciprocal insight is gained: the literature is related to the material context within which it was produced, and the socio…
Public Intellectuals and Conscious Pariahs: Hannah Arendt, Edward Said and a Common State in Palestine-Israel
In late nineteenth-century Europe, a distinct, secular socio-political type appeared: the conscious pariah. This essay traces the genealogy of the conscious pariah. Starting from Bernard Lazare and then comparing public intellectuals Hannah Arendt and Edward Said, it argues that the latter, too, can be interpreted as a conscious pariah. Whilst differences are not ignored, the essay highlights the shared political and scholarly insights Arendt and…
Euro-Zionism and its Discontents
Engagement with the work of Hebrew poet Yitzhak Laor on the origins and function of the new Holocaust remembrance culture in Germany, Italy and France. What relation does this bear to parallel developments in Israel and the United States
Israeli Sociology's Young Hegelian: Gershon Shafir and the Settler-Colonial Framework
In April 2014, the Center for Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) convened a conference titled “The Settler Colonial Paradigm: Debating Gershon Shafir's Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict on Its 25th Anniversary.” This essay emanates from the conference. I first chart the dialectical emergence of Shafir's thought out of Israeli sociology, and then gauge its impact on the growing pr…
Wakefield, Marx, and the world turned inside out
This article focuses on Edward Gibbon Wakefield's theory of colonization, on Karl Marx's response to it, and on the role that settler colonialism as a global phenomenon played in shaping their thought. Marx's rejoinder to Wakefield's interpretation of an episode in the early colonization of Western Australia, when servants had deserted a wealthy colonist, was a foundational moment in the development of his general argument. Wakefield's reaction t…
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