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HU Credits:
4
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
Semester:
Yearly
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Coordinator Office Hours:
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Hillel Cohen
Course/Module description:
A research seminar during which the students will study and present events and processes relate to the 1948 war - while at the same time think of our ability to know the past through reading in the existing literature - Israeli and Palestinian - on the war
Course/Module aims:
The aim of the seminar is to study together the war of 1948 and how history of conflict is written - and use the 1948 war as a test case
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
to present major schools in the study of 1948, to compare narratives and analyses of events through delving into the conceptual framework of each writer, and place themselves vis a vis the existing schools of study
Attendance requirements(%):
90%
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
frontal + self study of sources, presentations by students
Course/Module Content:
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Required Reading:
Avraham Sela, "Arab Historiography of the 1948 War: The Quest for Legitimacy," in: Silberstein, Laurence J. (ed.), New Perspectives on Israeli History (New York: New York University Press, 1991), pp. 124-154.
הזיכרון הקולקטיבי הפלסטיני וסוכניו
Mamduh Nofal and others, “Reflections on Al-Nakbah”, Journal of Palestine Studies, 28:1 (1998), pp. 5-35. [JSTOR]
Walid Khalidi, All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
Ahmad Sa'di, "Catastrophe, Memory and Identity: Al-Nakbah as a Component of Palestinian Identity", Israel Studies, 7:2 (), 175-198.
היסטוריה שבעל-פה ו-1948
Sherna Berger Gluck, "Oral History and al-Nakba", The Oral History Review 2008, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 68–80
אפרת בן זאב, "הכפר הפלסטיני אג'זם ב-1948: מבט היסטורי-אנתרופולוגי", המזרח החדש, מ"ג (תשס"ב), עמ' 82-65.
היכרות עם פרוייקט הוידיאו של PALESTINE REMEMBERED
זכרונות איש(י)ים
Fawzi Al-Qawaqji, “Memoirs, 1948,” Journal of Palestine Studies, 1:4 (1972); and 2:1 (1973).
Gamal Abdul Nasser, "Memoirs of the first Palestine War," Journal of Palestine
Studies, 2:2, 1972.
Jawad Botmeh, "Civil Resistance in Palestine: The village of Battir in 1948", (MA thesis, Coventry University September 2006).
Additional Reading Material:
Cohen, Michael Joseph, Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982).
Karsh, Efraim, The Arab-Israeli Conflict: the Palestine War 1948 (Oxford: Osprey 2002).
Khalaf, Issa, Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration, 1939-1948 (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991).
Lorch, Nathanel, The Edge of the Sword : Israel’s War of Independence, 1947-1949 (Jerusalem: Massada Press, 1961).
Masalha, Nur. Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
Milstein, Uri. History of the War of Independence (Lanham: University Press of America, 1996-1998.
Pappe, Ilan. Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine (Oxford: Oneworld, 2006).
Rogan Eugene and Avi Shlaim (eds.), Rewriting the History of 1948 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 30 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
An exam on 1948 will be held in the 5th week of the year. Grade 85 in this exam is a condition for submitting a final/seminar paper for the course
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