A collection of essays identifying and discussing the change that occurred around the late 1980s when Israeli historians began disputing the events surrounding the creation of the State of Israel at the time of the 1948 war. Other related topics are

Anita Shapira Tel Aviv University. Derek J. Penslar University of Toronto

Chapter 1 History and National Liberation, Michael Walzer; Chapter 2 Left and Right Post-Zionism and the Privatization of Israeli Collective Memory, Daniel Gutwein; Chapter 3 Historiosophical Foundations of the Historical Strife in Israel, Uri Ram; Chapter 4 The Strategies of Historical Revisionism, Anita Shapira; Chapter 5 Zionism and the Counter-Intellectuals, Mark Lilla; Chapter 6 Zionism, Colonialism and Postcolonialism, Derek J. Penslar; Chapter 7 Forgetting Europe, Avi Bareli; Chapter 8 The Status of Zionist and Israeli History in Israeli Universities, Yoav Gelber; Chapter 9 History Textbooks and the Limits of Israeli Consciousness, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin;