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New Historians refer to a group of Israeli historians who emerged in the 1980s, challenging traditional narratives of Israeli history, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They utilize newly available archival materials to reassess historical events, emphasizing the experiences and perspectives of Palestinians and critiquing the established Zionist historiography.
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New Historians refer to a group of Israeli historians who emerged in the 1980s, challenging traditional narratives of Israeli history, particularly regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They utilize newly available archival materials to reassess historical events, emphasizing the experiences and perspectives of Palestinians and critiquing the established Zionist historiography.

Key research themes

1. How do New Historians revise and challenge traditional narratives in Israeli-Palestinian historical memory?

This research theme investigates how New Historians, particularly Israeli scholars, have critically re-examined traditional Zionist narratives about key events such as the 1948 Palestinian exodus. It addresses the evolving historical memory within Israeli academia and society, highlighting shifts from dominant Zionist accounts to more critical perspectives that acknowledge Israeli involvement in Palestinian displacement. Understanding these narrative revisions is vital for grasping contested histories, collective memory politics, and the role of historical scholarship in conflict dynamics.

Key finding: This paper traces a significant shift in Israeli/Jewish historical memory from an exclusive adherence to the Zionist narrative until the late 1950s, which denied expulsions in 1948, to the emergence of critical narratives... Read more
Key finding: This symposium foregrounds the heterogeneous and politically charged nature of Israeli-Palestinian historiography, showing that New Historians' critical scholarship inspired new generations of literary, theatrical, and... Read more
Key finding: The work documents the scholarly debates and public discourse among Israeli Jews concerning the historical narrative of Zionism and the Palestinian conflict, especially post-1980. It identifies critical academic voices... Read more

2. What theoretical and methodological innovations define New Historicism in literary and historical studies?

This theme centers on the intellectual origins, conceptual underpinnings, and methodological traits of New Historicism as a critical approach that integrates literary analysis with historical contexts. It explores how New Historians and literary critics like Stephen Greenblatt have combined anthropological, Foucauldian, and comparative methods to study how texts both reflect and participate in power relations, ideology, and cultural practices of their times. This theme illuminates shifts from traditional historical objectivity to more interpretative, interdisciplinary analyses emphasizing the constructed nature of history and literature.

Key finding: This foundational essay articulates New Historicism as a shift from isolated textual analysis to an approach that situates literary texts within the dynamic social, political, and cultural discourses of their historical... Read more
Key finding: Gallagher and Greenblatt’s collaborative work demonstrates New Historicism’s innovative practice by juxtaposing canonical literary texts with non-traditional 'texts' drawn from cultural artifacts and rituals. Their analysis... Read more
Key finding: This study critically examines the intellectual heterogeneity and theoretical shortcomings within New Historicism, particularly its eclectic borrowings from thinkers like Althusser and Foucault. It insists that while New... Read more
Key finding: This critical appraisal situates New Historicism as a corrective to formalist and linguistic theories by reintroducing cultural and historical contexts into literary studies. It stresses New Historicism’s aim to historicize... Read more

3. How have conceptual and methodological transformations in historiography at the turn of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries redefined historical knowledge and narrative?

This research area explores the profound epistemological, methodological, and narrative shifts in historical studies prompted by postmodern critiques, linguistic turns, and interdisciplinary approaches blending history with literary and cultural studies. It assesses debates over objectivity, the constructed nature of historical narratives, and the use of new sources and methods like statistical analysis and literary criticism. The theme underscores how these transformations challenge traditional positivistic historiography, fostering innovative frameworks like cultural history and new social history that reconceptualize the historian’s role and the production of historical knowledge.

Key finding: The paper analyzes how postmodern critiques undermined traditional historiography’s claims to objectivity and raised questions about the constructed nature of historical texts and narratives. It highlights the rise of the... Read more
Key finding: Although primarily a call for integrating long-term historical thinking into contemporary societal issues, this manifesto implicitly critiques the short-termism and fragmented nature of current historical scholarship. It... Read more
Key finding: This essay critiques the developmental view of history underpinning much traditional historiography and argues that it inadequately addresses the unprecedented changes characterizing the contemporary world, such as the... Read more

All papers in New Historians

Tra guerre e genocidio
Introduzione. Negli ultimi decenni del conflitto israelo-palestinese è emersa una retorica religiosa e apocalittica nei discorsi di alcuni leader israeliani, che intreccia motivi escatologici (ossia inerenti alla "fine dei tempi" e alla... more
This study explores how historians account for the events of 1948 in Palestine. With a specific focus on the complex events surrounding the Tantura incident, it highlights the differing approaches of two Israeli historians who revisit... more
Le speranze suscitate dal cessate il fuoco del 25 gennaio scorso sono state rapidamente deluse dalla ripresa del conflito sia Gaza, sia in Cisgiordania, sia sul confine libanese, allontanando ancor di più la ricerca, peraltro già precaria... more
Il 16 marzo, nell’anniversario della barbara uccisione Rachel Corrie attivista statunitense ambientalista e pro-Palestina trucidata sotto i cingoli israeliani, i parenti hanno deciso di inoltrare una lettera attraverso i canali della... more
Comitato di Redazione 1 luglio 2024 Rileggere Yizhar istitutoeuroarabo.it/DM/rileggere-yizhar/ di Sabina Leoncini Maggio 1949. Khirbet Khizeh è un immaginario villaggio palestinese. Ad un gruppo di soldati del neonato Stato di Israele (14... more
“As students, our message is clear: we will not allow our tuition dollars to carry out the genocide of Palestinian people.” “Disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest”.
Mentre il mondo assiste al nuovo olocausto in corso a Gaza, perpetrato da chi a suo tempo ha subìto lo stesso abominevole trattamento, con la complicità oggi di una parte dell’occidente che fornisce armi e ritira fondi alle uniche... more
Recensione del libro Prima di Israele (antonellaricciardi.it) Recensione del libro "Prima di Israele" di Antonella Ricciardi L a prima caratteristica che non può passare inosservata dell'ottimo libro di Piero Sella "Prima di Israele", dal... more
Tausende von Arabern verkauften zwischen 1917 und 1948 Land an den Jüdischen Nationalfonds, versorgten zionistische Organisationen mit Informationen, arbeiteten für jüdische Einrichtungen oder bauten persönliche Bande mit Juden auf.... more
Diese Arbeit zeichnet die Entstehungsgeschichte des Staates Israel (1897-1948) aus der Perspektive der politischen Philosophin Hannah Arendt und des Zionisten Kurt Blumenfeld nach. Beide haben als Zeitzeugen und Betroffene die Gründung... more
Ben-Zion Dinur und seine Zeit* Vier Jahrtausende Geschichte sind sehr mächtig, wenn sie in den Herzen (des Volkes) leben; sie sind wertlos, wenn sie nur in Büchern aufgezeichnet sind. Wenn wir die Erben Am Israels, des Volkes Israels sein... more
Two months after the violent masscres in Palestine, 1929, Buber delivered one of his most programmatic speeches on Zionism, where he argued how the Zionist movement's collaboration with imperialism was resonsible for the anti-Jewish... more
This Regensburg dissertation on the attempts at self-discovery by Zionism in Germany" before the First World War is theoretically sophisticated. Empirically, it expands and corrects the state of research considerably. She analyzes the... more
versucht, einen theoretischen Rahmen für einen gemein-samen und integrativen jüdischen und palästinensischen Diskurs über die Erinnerungen an den Holocaust und die Nakba 1 zu entwerfen. Wir gehen davon aus, dass eine öffentlich... more
Soziologie und Nachhaltigkeit-Beiträge zur sozial-ökologischen Transformationsforschung SuN Zusammenfassung: In dem Beitrag wird das in weiten Teilen konfliktäre Verhältnis energieintensiver Unternehmen der Stahl-und Chemiebranche zur... more
National Myths According to Efraim Karsh, 'there is no such thing as "Zionist historiography'" (p. 147). Nonetheless, the purpose of Fabricating Israeli History is to discredit what he sees as a recent spate of anti-Zionist... more
The motivation for recounting individual and collective stories and the (re)construction of history as the eternal struggle of “good” and “evil” is subjected to critical examination. Historical salvation expectations are interpreted as... more
The motivation for recounting individual and collective stories and the (re)construction of history as the eternal struggle of “good” and “evil” is subjected to critical examination. Historical salvation expectations are interpreted as... more
Der vorliegende Artikel wurde in der Zeitschrift `Außerschulische Bildung´ 2/2018 publiziert. Er reflektiert das Verhältnis von jüdischem und demokratischen Staat vor dem Hintergrund der seit Staatsgründung geführten Diskussionen um eine... more
Sammelrezension: Maoz Azaryahu: Tel Aviv. Mythography of a City, Syracuse 2006; Barbara E. Mann: A Place in History. Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space. Stanford 2006; Mark LeV-ine: Overthrowing Geography. Jaffa,... more
Sammelrezension: Ronit Lentin: Co-Memory and Melancholia. Israelis Memorializing the Palestinian Nakba, Manchester/New York 2010; Efrat Ben-Ze’ev: Remembering Palestine in 1948. Beyond National Narra-tives. New York 2011. H-Soz-Kult, 17.... more
[Al Mukawama. Palestinian fellahin resistance to Zionist colonisation, a case of 'social banditry'? Notes for a historiographical rethinking of the phenomenon.] Italiano [english versione below] Lo scopo di questo articolo è di... more
Catawba College tispopular to paraphrase George Santayana's aphorism that if one I doesn't learn the lessons of history, one is bound to repeat them. George Hegel, who had it closer to the mark in my estimation, suggested: history teaches... more
Orient hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten unseres Jahrhunderts die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit in besonderer Weise auf sich gelenkt, manchmal hat er sogar die Welt in Atem gehalten, wenn die dortigen Konflikte sich zu kriegerischen... more
Dr. Don Peretz, a leading scholar on the Arab-Israel conflict and Palestinian refugees at SUNY-Binghamton, died on April 29 in Mitchellville, Maryland. He was 94.
Historiography beyond Orientalism Public «discourse» has played a central role in historical debate on the contemporary Middle East. It is also integral to a long-term intellectual paradigm, namely «Orientalism», as described by Edward... more
In recent years German media coverage of the Middle East conflict has been accused of an anti-Israeli bias that reinforces old, widely held prejudices and stereotypes about Jews and supports the common accusation that Israel misuses the... more
Regierung ist antisemitisch, wenn diese oder andere Variationen dieser Fantasie verwendet werden-genau wie Kritik an Arabern rassistisch ist, wenn sie sich am Bild des Arabers als einem gerissenen, lügnerischen und entarteten Menschen... more
Geschlecht und Nation in Israel 189 der Aufnahmegesellschaft" (S. 386) deuten lassen, sich auf andere Lagerformen und-erfahrungen übertragen ließe-wie von van Laak angedeutet-bleibt abzuwarten. Die Studie, der ein sorgfältigeres Lektorat... more
Der Beitrag zeichnet die Geschichte des europäisch grundierten Zionismus im und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg bis zur Staatsgründung Israels im Jahre 1948 nach. Das erkenntnisleitende Interesse besteht darin zu zeigen, wie das aufstrebende... more
Wider den Nationalismus, für den Grenzgang zwischen den Kulturen als gleichberechtigte Solidarität von Juden und Arabern.
Bea Lundt, Christoph Marx (eds.), Kwame Nkrumah. A Controversial African Visionary; Ulrich van der Heyden, Kwame Nkrumah – Diktator oder Panafrikanist? Die politische Bewertung des ghanaischen Politikers in der DDR im Spannungsfeld der... more
Das 2018 erschienene Buch "Israeli Sociology" des nunmehr emeritierten Soziologen Uri Ram (Ben-Gurion-Universität des Negev) bildet Teil der Buchreihe "Sociology Transformed" von Palgrave Macmillan (Springer). Die Titel der Serie lassen... more
In 2001 R.B. published the article "Die Irrtümer der Gedenkpolitik. Ein Plädoyer für das Vergessen" (The Errors in the Politics of Remembrance. A Plea for Forgetting") causing a veritable controversal rumor. In 2020, Novembre, he began... more
Die beiden deutschen Staaten und Israel sind innerhalb weniger Jahre nach Ende der Vernichtungskampagne gegen die Juden entstanden. Alle drei waren gezwungen, sich dem Ereignis sofort zu stellen. Als Staaten, die wegen der Folgen des... more
Die vorliegende Arbeit thematisiert den Kanaanismus, eine marginale Strömung unter intellektuellen jüdischen und vor allem jungen Einwanderern und Sabres im britischen Mandatsgebiet Palästina bzw. dem neugegründeten Staat Israel. Die... more
Ein Bildungsmaterial für den virtuellen Methodenkoffer "malmad" der Servicestelle für Antidiskriminierungsarbeit Beratung bei Rassismus und Antisemitismus der Jüdischen Gemeinde Düsseldorf. Online unter: https://www.malmad.de/themen/israel
In diesem Buch stellt sich die Frage danach, welche Stellung die Juden in der ägyptischen Gesellschaft zwischen 1915 und 1952, insbesondere aber in der Zeit zwischen den beiden Weltkriegen, einnahmen und danach, ob diese Stellung sich... more
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