Norman Finkelstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5701653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Finkelstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Finkelstein |
| SIGNATURE | FINKELSTEIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Xavier University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 30 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“We have to be open to the future”
Cet essai évoque les œuvres autobiographiques d’Auster, en particulier Report from the Interior, et propose de lire ce dernier comme un précurseur du long roman 4 3 2 1 paru récemment. Je propose ainsi de voir chez Auster un modèle d’auteur juif américain différent de ceux qui l’ont précédé et explique en quoi cette différence complique sa place dans la littérature américaine contemporaine
“Vatic Lips”
L’amorce des poèmes de Paul Auster ne se contente pas de déclencher un acte de parole, un acte d’énonciation lyrique. Elle préfigure aussi la fermeture ou l’extinction de son discours et, par là-même, l’ouverture et la fermeture du poème se produisent, pour ainsi dire, simultanément. Le poème et son poète reconnaissent la tâche orphique de la poésie, mais se retournent contre eux-mêmes en refusant cette tâche. Cette mise en scène, qui se répète p…
Maeera Y. Shreiber. Holy Envy
A new book by Maeera Shreiber is a significant critical event. Shreiber’s first book, Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics (Stanford University Press, 2007), remains one of the few definitive works on the subject of modern Jewish American poetry; it is a deep, theoretically sophisticated, but highly readable exploration of some of the field’s most important themes, styles, and individual figures. It focuses particularly on provoca…
Robert Duncan, Kabbalah, and “The Dominion of the Poetic Mind”
What leads poets into mystical, hermetic and occult studies? How do these traditions shape their poetic practice, and conversely, how do their poems deepen our understanding of the enduring power of these bodies of thought, belief, and ritual? In response to these questions, this paper focuses on Robert Duncan’s study of Kabbalah, especially Kabbalistic language mysticism, which he reads as “the description of the process of a poem.” For Duncan, …
Method and Madness
Knowing Too Much
Book Excerpt
Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel Is Coming to an End (forthcoming, 2011), Chapter 3, “A Conspiracy So Immense”
Beyond Chutzpah
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new aft…
Recovering the New
Book Review| March 01 2004 Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism; Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks By Edward S. Cutler. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2003. x,215 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xxvi, 297 pp. Cloth, $55.00; p…
Securing Occupation
As a formal document, the Wye River Memorandum breaks no new ground.Its stated purpose is merely to reaffirm and ‘facilitate implementation’ of ‘prior agreements’.Nonetheless, the Memorandum illuminates the process set in motion at Oslo and dispels lingering illusions.In these remarks, I will first sketch the crucial historical background
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
Whither the 'Peace Process
Since the signing of the September 1993 Oslo I agreement, the Israel-Palestine ‘peace process’ has been punctuated by a series of dramatic developments. The purpose of this article is to assess their significance. I will first examine the September 1995 Oslo II agreement, the definitive document for the
History's Verdict
History's Verdict
This article is part of the following collections: Half a Century of Narrating Palestine: The Journal of Palestine Studies Turns Fifty
Charles Olson
Reflections on Palestinian Attitudes during the Gulf War
Rejoinder to Benny Morris
Reflections on Palestinian Attitudes during the Gulf War
Rejoinder to Benny Morris
In Myths, Old and New (hereafter: Myths), published in the last issue of the Journal, * I discussed Benny Morris's central thesis that the Arab refugee problem was born of war, not by design. I suggested that Morris's own evidence points to the conclusion that Palestine's Arabs were expelled systematically and with premeditation. Morris's Response to Finkelstein and Masalha (hereafter: Response), printed in the same issue (pp. 98-114), demonstrat…
Myths, Old and New
In recent years, a more or less cohesive body of work has emerged which challenges the received wisdom on the origins of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Variously labelled history, revisionist history, or simply (as against the pre history of an earlier generation), this scholarship severely qualifies-without, however, roundly dismissing-the standard interpretation of the eve, unfolding, and aftermath of the 1948 war. Its authors, mostly Israeli, argu…
Israel and Iraq
Israel and Iraq
On 25 August 1990, the New York Times ran as its lead editorial a comprehensive indictment of Iraq entitled World v. Saddam Hussein. It argued that the Iraqi leader was becoming a criminal in the classic Nuremberg sense. Indeed, the Times's editors suggested that Hussein was in a class of criminals virtually all his own, having violated most of the Nuremberg Principles with his crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The in…
Myths, Old and New
Bayt Sahur in Year II of the Intifada
A ten-minute drive from Bethlehem, Bayt Sahur is a labyrinthine village of solid new concrete structures rising out of a deep valley with terraced hills. Its fifteen thousand, mostly Christian, residents inhabit a universe poised between the traditional and the modern, the balance moving tentatively but steadily towards the modern. A married woman is still expected to live with her husband's family and give her full attention to them, but the mar…
Bayt Sahur in Year II of the Intifada
Myths, Old and New
In recent years, a more or less cohesive body of work has emerged which challenges the received wisdom on the origins of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Variously labelled history, revisionist history, or simply (as against the pre history of an earlier generation), this scholarship severely qualifies-without, however, roundly dismissing-the standard interpretation of the eve, unfolding, and aftermath of the 1948 war. Its authors, mostly Israeli, argu…
History's Verdict
This article is part of the following collections: Half a Century of Narrating Palestine: The Journal of Palestine Studies Turns Fifty
Myths, Old and New
Securing Occupation
As a formal document, the Wye River Memorandum breaks no new ground.Its stated purpose is merely to reaffirm and ‘facilitate implementation’ of ‘prior agreements’.Nonetheless, the Memorandum illuminates the process set in motion at Oslo and dispels lingering illusions.In these remarks, I will first sketch the crucial historical background
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
History's Verdict
Reflections on Palestinian Attitudes during the Gulf War
Rejoinder to Benny Morris
In Myths, Old and New (hereafter: Myths), published in the last issue of the Journal, * I discussed Benny Morris's central thesis that the Arab refugee problem was born of war, not by design. I suggested that Morris's own evidence points to the conclusion that Palestine's Arabs were expelled systematically and with premeditation. Morris's Response to Finkelstein and Masalha (hereafter: Response), printed in the same issue (pp. 98-114), demonstrat…
Israel and Iraq
On 25 August 1990, the New York Times ran as its lead editorial a comprehensive indictment of Iraq entitled World v. Saddam Hussein. It argued that the Iraqi leader was becoming a criminal in the classic Nuremberg sense. Indeed, the Times's editors suggested that Hussein was in a class of criminals virtually all his own, having violated most of the Nuremberg Principles with his crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The in…
Jack Spicer's Ghosts and the Gnosis of History
Situation de S. dans la tradition poetique. Le conflit du poete avec son daimon donne voix au poeme au-dela de la personnalite du poete. La repetition chez Yeats engendre la joie de l'ironie| chez S., la terreur de la confrontation avec les morts
"The Scope of This Fraud was Huge"
Peace Process or Peace Panic
The Utopian Function and the Refunctioning of Marxism
The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Poetry
Bayt Sahur in Year II of the Intifada
A ten-minute drive from Bethlehem, Bayt Sahur is a labyrinthine village of solid new concrete structures rising out of a deep valley with terraced hills. Its fifteen thousand, mostly Christian, residents inhabit a universe poised between the traditional and the modern, the balance moving tentatively but steadily towards the modern. A married woman is still expected to live with her husband's family and give her full attention to them, but the mar…
Bayt Sahur in Year II of the Intifada
Myths, Old and New
In recent years, a more or less cohesive body of work has emerged which challenges the received wisdom on the origins of the Israeli-Arab conflict. Variously labelled history, revisionist history, or simply (as against the pre history of an earlier generation), this scholarship severely qualifies-without, however, roundly dismissing-the standard interpretation of the eve, unfolding, and aftermath of the 1948 war. Its authors, mostly Israeli, argu…
Israel and Iraq
Israel and Iraq
On 25 August 1990, the New York Times ran as its lead editorial a comprehensive indictment of Iraq entitled World v. Saddam Hussein. It argued that the Iraqi leader was becoming a criminal in the classic Nuremberg sense. Indeed, the Times's editors suggested that Hussein was in a class of criminals virtually all his own, having violated most of the Nuremberg Principles with his crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. The in…
Myths, Old and New
Reflections on Palestinian Attitudes during the Gulf War
Rejoinder to Benny Morris
Reflections on Palestinian Attitudes during the Gulf War
Rejoinder to Benny Morris
In Myths, Old and New (hereafter: Myths), published in the last issue of the Journal, * I discussed Benny Morris's central thesis that the Arab refugee problem was born of war, not by design. I suggested that Morris's own evidence points to the conclusion that Palestine's Arabs were expelled systematically and with premeditation. Morris's Response to Finkelstein and Masalha (hereafter: Response), printed in the same issue (pp. 98-114), demonstrat…
Charles Olson
History's Verdict
History's Verdict
This article is part of the following collections: Half a Century of Narrating Palestine: The Journal of Palestine Studies Turns Fifty
Whither the 'Peace Process
Since the signing of the September 1993 Oslo I agreement, the Israel-Palestine ‘peace process’ has been punctuated by a series of dramatic developments. The purpose of this article is to assess their significance. I will first examine the September 1995 Oslo II agreement, the definitive document for the
Daniel Jonah Goldhagen’s 'Crazy' Thesis
Securing Occupation
As a formal document, the Wye River Memorandum breaks no new ground.Its stated purpose is merely to reaffirm and ‘facilitate implementation’ of ‘prior agreements’.Nonetheless, the Memorandum illuminates the process set in motion at Oslo and dispels lingering illusions.In these remarks, I will first sketch the crucial historical background
Recovering the New
Book Review| March 01 2004 Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism; Imaginary Communities: Utopia, the Nation, and the Spatial Histories of Modernity; The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks By Edward S. Cutler. Hanover, N.H.: Univ. Press of New England. 2003. x,215 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xxvi, 297 pp. Cloth, $55.00; p…
Beyond Chutzpah
Meticulously researched and tightly argued, Beyond Chutzpah points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Norman G. Finkelstein exposes the corruption of scholarship and the contrivance of controversy shrouding human rights abuses, and interrogates the new anti-Semitism. This paperback edition adds a preface analyzing recent developments in the conflict, and a new aft…
Book Excerpt
Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel Is Coming to an End (forthcoming, 2011), Chapter 3, “A Conspiracy So Immense”
Knowing Too Much
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