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Article: Fabricating Israeli History: The `New Historians' (Second Revised Edition).(Review)
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- Middle Eastern Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Fabricating Israeli History: The `New Historians' (Second Revised Edition) by Efraim Karsh. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp.xliv + 280, index. 39.50 [pounds sterling]/$54.50 (cloth); 16.50 [pounds sterling]/$24.50 (paper). ISBN 0-7146-5011-0; 0-7146-8063-X.
The second version of Professor's Karsh's attack on Israel's so-called `new historians' (revisionists) updates the original and includes a new introduction and conclusion that chronicle the recent history of the debate itself. Israel is not unique in having a group of revisionist academics who attempt to reinterpret (or in some cases rewrite) key events in a nation's history. The current ...