
Translator: Davood Salehan
Source: Rasekhoon.net
Source: Rasekhoon.net
For many years, the Zionist victory was at the center of modern Jewish history subjects. After World War II, the Holocaust was an example of Dinawar writing about the new era in Jewish history. He divided the New Age into three sub-categories that last one was from 1881 to 1947. In his opinion, these years have been age of political uprisings, self-defense and strengthening national power. This matter started by Jewish reaction to public torture and slaughter and ended with the settlement of Jews in Israel (Palestine). Dinawar did not refer to the Holocaust as a especial word.
In 1948, after the establishment of the State of Israel, the history of Zionism became history of Israel state. However, with the regional growth and its relations with the world along with Jews settled in other countries and Arabs, who had surrounded it, the historiography that emphasized on the common Zionist characteristics, became the unique story of Zionism development in specific countries. During the first decades of establishment of the Zionist state of Israel, a number of new books were published about the history of Zionism in Central and Eastern Europe. Richard Lykht Hayem wrote "things in relation to the Zionism movement in Germanny", studies of N.M. Gylber about the Zionist movement in Galicia, Israel Klozner and Isaac Mayor in relation to the Russian Zionism and Zoë Zahavi "a book about the origins of the Zionist movement in Hungary". In Eastern Europe, patriots and other Zionist youth movements set their scientific activities according to documents that it was impressive in Poland.
At that time, the history of the Zionist movement in Europe has lost its charm. On one hand, research in this area decreased and on the other hand, researches on Zionist history began in Islamic countries such as Iraq, Egypt, Russia or North Africa.
Zionist historiography after the establishment of the State of Israel was focused on the Bishvu date at end of the Ottoman era; especially during the Mandate of Great Britain in the early Jewish settlement in Palestine. The story of Awakening of Jews in the Diaspora and Zionists' experience in Palestine in the first third decade of the twentieth century was transferred to the legendary victory of the Zionists in the next decade. But a high price spent for this victory was avoided relentlessly by Zionist historians and they refused to entry to this discussion.
The victory obviously had a lot of reasons and factors and historians of Bishvu spent a lot of time in searching for these factors. Bishvu heterogeneous society was a non-Zionist and anti-Zionist society. This community included a group of immigrants from different countries with different attitudes to immigration with competing ideologies that led to domestic and international development of Zionist movement, political organizations, economic competing parties and movements and groups. Each of these factors were to be recognized and even exclusive control over the whole situation. In this relation each group tried to strengthen their position and show their situation as certain and distinguished one in discussions about history before the establishment of state of Israel.
Controversial matters in Bishvu history caused German placing in the historiography. Who built the country? Who shaped Jewish military power? One of the results of the differences between historians was a series of historical projects in organizations, political parties, trade unions and other groups. A comprehensive history of the Zionist movement was the subject of three studies and researches. Also numerous projects are devoted to Bishvu community and the military systems.
The first project was started in 1953 which commemorated the military's youngest forces, Palma. Another project was allocated to another military force Haganah which at the same time devoted the most parts of the projects of Bishvu history. A few years later the Irgun underground terrorist party responded to the debate through the publication of their historical project. Some of these books were written by personal historians and other writings were products of collective work. All these publications had a board of directors and some influential militaries were involved in writing and books and even choosing the resources.
Initial works of history of the War of Independence also belong to this period. Combat activities of Israel Defense Forces was written by the Summary History group and by Ntanl Lorch in this regard. In addition, some of the Brigade Forces of Israeli Defense department also started to write stories about the war. Some of these histories were in fact collecting evidence and memories. People like Abraham Ayalon and Ezbrigade Givati made serious research in this connection.
Encyclopedia of Jew-burning is one the second handed writings on Jew-burning (edited by Israel Guttmann).
The most recent work, entitled "Hitler's willing executioners" written by Daniel Jonah Gold Hagen has been released. In the first few weeks after the publication of this book all the important Bachelor papers published one or more critical about it. The New York Times published some notes about it and outlined book of Gold Hagen as "one of the new and rare works". The book has sold half a million copies and was translated into thirteen languages, and TIME magazine knew it as "a book which has devoted the most of discussions," and the second outstanding non-fiction book of the year.
The main theme of the Gold Hagen's book is the axiom of Jew-burning. He supported Wilkomirski. His book is in fact the book of Wilkomirski besides postscripts. Gold Hagen's book is full of internal contradictions, false references to resources and lacks any research value. The book "trial of a Nation" written by Ruth Betinaborn and Finkelstein provided evidence of wrongdoing of Gold Hagen.
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