The Palestinians in the 1948 War and recent historiography in Israel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12534906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Itamar Radai (0000-0002-5668-2341, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel, Ra’anana, Israel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 301-324 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Israeli History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1353-1042 • E-ISSN: 1744-0548 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13531042.2021.2075107 |
| OpenAlex | W4281777557 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
The 1948 War was one of the most formative events in both Israeli and Palestinian history. Recent years have seen a transformation in Israeli historiography relating to this war, with the emergence of three intertwined research orientations: social history, the study of Palestinian society, and microhistory. The two books at the center of this article correspond well with the trend of growing interest being shown by Middle East historians in Israel – Jews and Palestinians alike – in the 1948 War, together with the turn toward research of the Palestinian society and the adoption of microhistory. Yet, a chasm seems to separate the approaches of Eliezer Tauber and Adel Manna to the events of 1948. Nevertheless, there are a number of similarities between them – which is perhaps not so surprising, as both are contemporary historians who are conversing with the cumulative research about the 1948 War. The two books illustrate vividly how difficult it is for Israeli historians, Jewish and Palestinian alike, to write today about the events of 1948 disengaged from an ideological and even ethnocentric point of view
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Ethnocentrism · Historiography · History of Israel · Ideology · Judaism · Microhistory · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Classics · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
New perspectives on historical writing
Comrades and enemies
Palestinian Village Histories
Good Arabs
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1947-1951
The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement 1918–1929
Army of Shadows
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
Remembering Palestine in 1948
Palestinian Identity
Nazareth in the War for Palestine
The Army of Sacred Jihad
Oral testimonies, archival sources, and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
The Historiography of Deir Yassin
The Palestinian Nakba and its Continuous Repercussions
The Fall of Acre in the 1948 Palestine War
Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Rebellions in Palestine
The Battle of Red Hill
The Arabs of Palestine 1947–48
The Palestinian entity (1959–1974)
The War for Palestine
The Battle for Safad in the War of 1948
The Effect of Socioeconomic Change on Arab Societal Collapse in Mandate Palestine
Is Small Beautiful? Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life
The Palestinian village of Ijzim during the 1948 war
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |