Jewish historiography in the twentieth century

In Jewish historiography in the twentieth century, Salo Vytmayer Baron (1989-1895), who was born in Tar Delhi, Galicia, has a special place and has lived in the United States. He was the first Jewish professor who began teaching Jewish history at an American university. He set a new world history of the Jews (the third World Jewish history after Gratz and Dobnu) and called it social and religious history of the Jews. The book was published in three volumes in 1937 for the first time and then it was published in fourteen volumes (1954-1969) for the second time. He knew how to enter Jewish history in the public history and how to emphasize on the Jewish capacity to adapt to the most extreme circumstances. He also knew how to rebuild the middle Ages and show that it has only been a long line of nations and suffering (he was opposed to the history of tears). According to Baron, Jewish history is a combination of general history and the history of the world.
Tragedy of the Shoah is the hardest tragedy for the Zionists in the history of Zionism and it is as one of the hardest tragedies including myths and mysteries in ration with establishment of the Zionist state in the land of Palestine. This tragedy is one of the main characteristics of Jewish historiography, especially after 1989 with a new opportunity that emerged for inspection at the post-communist states, Israeli historians on the basis of reasons and by emphasizing the importance of the issue started Jewish resistance against the Nazis, while some other Jewish historians mainly emphasized on understanding other mechanisms. Both groups of historians began to praise the performance of the Jews among other nations that the issue was lauded by the Yad Vashem Institute. At the same time performance of the Vatican and its allies was disapproved and unanswered questions were raised. For example: Why Auschwitz camp was never bombed? New changes in Jewish historiography emerged in Israel and the new historians began their activities at the end of the 1980s. Who are the historians? And what are the main conflicts between them? And what do they search for?
The term of "new historians" was used by Benny Morris. He is currently a professor at the University of Byrshuwa, and attracted attention of writers who had recently done critical studies about the birth of Zionism, Israel and the first Arab-Israeli war in an article that was published in the Journal of Jews in America called TIKKUN (on December and November 1998).
Benny Morris has examined espionage and intelligence actions of secret Zionism agencies before forming Israeli stats, as well as the evolution of intelligence services in book "the Israeli secret wars" that has been translated into Persian. Espionages of intelligence services of the regime around the world, especially in the Arabic countries, disapproval of some Jews for forming a nation for Jews, operations of some of the intelligence services in Iran during Shah's era and its collaboration with SAVAK with covert events behind the scenes of wars in 1948, 1956 (Suez crisis), 1967 (six day war) and 1973 (war of Ramadan) are all examined by Benny Morris. Creating fear and panic among the Palestinians; the resistance of the Palestinian people and the failure of the Israeli war in Lebanon, the Intifada and the struggle of the Palestinian people and the brutal confrontation of the mentioned intelligence agency have been told all by Maurice.
Benny Morris has revealed many of the abnormal actions, behaviors, techniques and procedures of the Israeli intelligence services and retells operational failures of them with by representing the information and documents. In fact, at that time, four books were published simultaneously in English by Zionist historians:
- Birth of Israel: Myths and Reality (New York, 1987) by Symkaflapan
- the creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949 (Cambridge, 1987) by Benny Morris
- collusion and conspiracy over the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist movement and the partition of Palestine (Oxford, 1988) By Avi Shalayem
- Great Britain and the Arab-Israeli conflict, 1948-1951 (New York, 1988) by Lan Pope
The books continued by articles in periodicals Israel publications (Katdra, Hazyonot, Zamanym, Zionism studies); In addition to this other articles and texts were published such as the first Israelis (New York, 1993) by Yuri Mylystyn or another book in French language about Israel and genocide (Paris, 1992) by Tom Sogoph which has questioned the official history of Zionism, the Jewish population of Palestine, performance of Bischoff (Jewish community in Palestine before the establishment of the Zionist Israel), concerns of the Jews of Europe in solving the Shoah, Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and the Palestinian refugee problem. In fact, in this book official history of the Jews has been accused that activities of Zionists from the domestic point of view are purely considered promotional, and by the way, critics about unilateral and one-sided idea of Israelis about their history when the Israeli successes are attributed to historians after Zionist (A word in the concept of postmodernism.)