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September 22, 1998
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Karsh, Efraim

Fabricating Israeli History: The "New Historians"

London: Frank Cass 210 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.00 paper ISBN 0-7146-4725-X cloth ISBN 0-7146-4274-6 paper Publication Date: June 1997

As a historian of the modern Middle East, I came away from reading Efraim Karsh's Fabricating Israeli History with two distinct and contradictory reactions derived from the duality of purpose evinced in the book.

On the surface, Karsh is out to discredit the revisionist history of "new" Israeli historians such as Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, and Ilan Pappe who have questioned the accepted story of the creation of the Israeli nation. Reacting ...

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