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Israeli History and Identity: readings

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Eyal Naveh, Tel Aviv University
 Required Readings

- Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
  (New York: Basic Books, 1981),Introduction

- Yael Zerubavel, Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National
  Tradition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995), 13-36, 39-47, 147-167

- Oz Almog, The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew, trans. by Haim Watzman (Berkeley and
  London: University of California Press, 2000), 35-45, 185-197.

- Nadim Rouhana and Asad Ghanem, "The Crisis of Minorities in Ethnic States: The Case of
  Palestinian Citizens in Israel," International Journal of Middle East Studies 30 (1998),
  321-346

- Anita Shapira ed., Israeli Identity in Transition (Westport Connecticut, London: Praeger,
  2004), 31-108, 137-162, 215-256

- Robert I. Rotberg ed., Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict, (Bloomington and
  Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006), 47-71, 205-224, 244-270

- Laurence J. Silberstein, The Post-Zionist Debate: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture
  (New York and London: Routledge, 1999), 1-14, 89-126



 Suggested Bibliography

- Howard Shachar, A History of Israel, From the Rise of Zionism to Our Times

- Tom Segev, Elvis in Jerusalem: Post Zionism and the Americanization of Israel

- Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State

- Derek J. Penslar,
Israel in History

- Anita Shapira, Israeli Identity in Transition

- Oz Almog, The Sabra The Creation of the New Jew

- Laurence Silberstein, The Post-Zionist Debate: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

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