San Diego State University Department of

People from our Past

HIST 442 Spring 2013 Professor Moshe Naor Class Days: T-TH (11:00-12:15) Class Location: AL 204 Office Hours Location: AL 567 Office Hours Days and Times: W 14:00-15:00 [email protected]

Course Description This course will examine the major developments in the history of the Jewish and Arab communities in and in the State of as part of Middle Eastern and Modern . In this course we will use a biographical approach to history through the lives of prominent and ordinary individuals while using autobiographies, biographies, memories, and diaries as historical sources. We will examine subjects such as generational identities, Jewish and Arab nationalism, Zionist ideology, Israeli and Palestinian national identities, Immigration and refuges, life in the mixed cities, civilians in war, as well as the relations between Jews, Muslims and Christians in the late Ottoman Empire, the British Mandate and the State of Israel.

Course Principals The students are expected to attend all classes, show up on time and to have read the assigned readings for each session. You can miss two classes without any consequences. Every missed class not due to a verifiable medical or personal emergency after that will result in a reduction of your final grade. Mandatory class readings include the text book and the chapters and articles that are listed in the syllabus. Primary sources: documents, texts, maps and visual sources will be placed occasionally on the course blackboard website. The final take-home exam will cover course materials presented in lectures, the text book, assigned readings and class discussions. Make sure that your take-home exam is based on your original work. Footnote your sources, indicate direct quotes, and avoid closely paraphrasing your sources. Students with disabilities or who need special consideration are requested to contact me as soon as possible.

Grading - Midterm take-home exam (will be given to students on Mar.7, submitted by students on Mar 14) - 40% - Take-home final exam (will be given to students on April 30; submitted by students on our last meeting, May 7) - 50% - Attendance and active participation - 10%

Text Book Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Suggested Books Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, Press, 2012 Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Princeton University Press, 2011.

Course Topics and Readings

Class 1 (Jan.17) – Palestine/Israel: History and Biography of a Holy Land

Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, Princeton University Press, 2011, pp.1-100.

Michael Stanislawski, Autobiographical Jews, University of Washington Press, 2004, pp. 3-17.

Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, The Rediscovery of the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century, Jerusalem 1979, pp.11-17.

Class 2 (Jan.22) – The Assimilated Jew and the Emergence of Jewish Nationalism

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, Brandeis University Press, 2012, pp.3-26.

Shlomo Avineri, "Herzl; The Breakthrough", in: The making of Modern : Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, New York, 1981, pp.88-100.

Shlomo Avineri, "Pinsker: From Emancipation to Auto-Emancipation", in: The making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, pp.73-82.

Class 3 (Jan.24) – Jewish Immigration and "Pioneering" in Ottoman Palestine

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.27-53.

Amos Elon, The Israelis: Founders and Sons, Penguin Books 1983, pp.82-147.

Class 4 (Jan.29) – Native Sons: Jews and in the Late Ottoman Empire

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.53-66.

Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine, pp, 101-138. Amy Dockser Marcus, Jerusalem 1913: the Origins of the Arab Israeli Conflict, Penguin Books, 2008, pp.59-86.

Class 5 (Jan.31) – War and Change: Palestine and the Middle East in World War I

Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine, pp.139-163.

Salim Tamari, "The Great War and the Erasure of Palestine's Ottoman Past", in: Leila Fawaz and Kamill Mansour, Transformed Landscapes, Cairo, 2009, pp.105-136.

Abigail Jacobson, “A City Living through Crisis: Jerusalem during World War I,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 36 No. 1 (April 2009), pp. 73-92.

Michael Keren and Shlomit Keren, "The Jewish Legions in the First World War as a Locus of Identity Formation", Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 6/1 (2007), pp.69- 83.

Class 6 (Feb.5) – The British Empire and the Ruling of Palestine

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.67-103.

Norman Rose, A Senseless Squalid War: Voices from Palestine 1890s-1948, Pimlico, 2010, pp.1-51

Tom Segev, One Palestine Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, Little, Brown, 2001, pp.295-327.

Classes 7-8 (Feb.7-12) – Zionist Ideology and a Collective Biography

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.119-154.

Shlomo Avineri, "Jabotinsky: Integralist Nationalism and the Illusion of Power" in: The making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, New York, 1981, pp.159-186.

Shlomo Avineri, "Ahad HaA'm: The Spiritual Damnation of the Jewish State",The making of Modern Zionism, pp. 112-124.

Shlomo Avineri, "Ben-Gurion: The Vision and the Power" in: The making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, pp.198-216.

Class 9 (Feb.14) – Palestinian Nationalism and the National Conflict

Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine, pp, 188-295. Philip Mattar, The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement, New York: Columbia University Press, 1988, pp.1-49.

Susan Silsby Boyle, Betrayal Palestine: The Story of George Antonius, Boulder, 2001, pp, 224-265.

Class 10 (Feb.19) – Film and Autobiography: Jews and Arabs in the Mixed Cities

Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine, pp.164-187.

Deborah Bernstein, "Contested Contact: Proximity and Social Control in Pre-1948 Jaffa and Tel-Aviv", in: Daniel Monterescu and Dan Rabinowitz (eds.), Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities, Hampshire, 2007, pp.215-241.

Film: "The house on Chelouche Street", Director: Moshe Mizrahi, Israel 1973.

Class 11 (Feb.21) – War and Society: Palestine in World War II

Gudrun Kramer, A History of Palestine, pp.298-323.

Norman Rose, A Senseless Squalid War: Voices from Palestine 1890s-1948, Pimlico, 2010, pp.52-103

Tom Segev, The Seventh Million: The Israelis and , New York, 1993, pp.67-110.

Class 12 (Feb.26) – British Civic and Military Evacuation and the End of the Mandate

A. J. Sherman, Mandate Days: British Lives in Palestine 1918-1948, Thames and Hudson, 1997, pp. 174-245.

Motti Golani, The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948: The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp.1-22.

Hadara Lazar, Out of Palestine: the Making of Modern Israel, New York, 2011, Chapters 8 and 12.

Class 13 (Feb.28) – The Israeli Society and the Arab/Israeli War of 1948

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.155-178.

Anita Shapira, "Jerusalem in 1948: A Contemporary Perspective"' Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Spring/Summer 2011), pp. 78-123 Emmanuel Sivan, "To Remember is to Forget: Israel's 1948 War", Journal of Contemporary History, 28/2 (1993), pp.341-359.

Moshe Naor, "Israel's 1948 War of Independence as a Total War", Journal of Contemporary History, 43/2 (April 2008), pp, 241-257.

Class 14 (Mar.5) - The Palestinian Society and the 1948 War

Salim Tamari, Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2009, pp.56-70.

Laila Parsons, "Soldiering for Arab Nationalism; Fawazi Al-Qawuqji", Journal of Palestinian Studies, 36/4 (2007), pp. 33-48.

Itamar Radai, "The Collapse of the Palestinian-Arab Middle Class in 1948: The Case of Qatamon", Middle Eastern Studies, 43/6 (2007), pp.961-982.

Class 15 (Mar.7) – Post War Reconstruction and State Building in Israel

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.54-97.

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.208-221.

Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis. Picador, 1998, pp.265-323.

Moshe Naor, "The 1948 War Veterans and Postwar Reconstruction in Israel", Journal of Israeli History, 29/1 (March 2010), pp. 47-59.

Classes 16-17 (Mar.12-14) – Melting Pot: Jewish Immigrants in a New State

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.222-247.

Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis. Picador, 1998, pp.95-194.

Film: "Sallah Shabati", Director: Ephraim Kishon, Israel 1965.

Class 18 (Mar.19) – The Israeli Arabs and the State of Israel

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal (eds.), The Palestinian People, Harvard University Press, 2003, pp.169-213.

Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis. Picador, 1998, pp.3-92.

Hillel Cohen, Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs 1948- 1967, University of California Press, 2010, Chapter 3. Film: Chapter from the Israeli TV series: Arab Labor, (2009), by Sayed Kashua

Class 19 (Mar.21) – Army and Society: Origins of the Israeli Defense Forces

Martin Van Creveld, The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force, New York 1998, pp.5-102

Anita Shapira, Yigal Alon, Native Son: A Biography, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, pp.126-177.

Mordechai Bar-On, Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero, Yale University Press, 2012, pp. 26-98.

Class 20 (Mar.26) – No Class

Class 21 (Mar.28) – "The Sixties" in Israel and in the "Arab World"

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.98-122.

Avi Shlaim, Lion of Jordan: the Life of King Hussein in War and Peace, New York, 2008, pp. 155-173.

Michael Bar-Zohar, Ben-Gurion, London, 1978, pp.259-311.

Class 22 (Apr.9) – Civilians and War in June 1967

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.295-325.

Tom Segev, 1967: Israel, the war, and the Year that transformed the Middle East, New York, 2007, pp. 126-140, 225-246, 277-287.

Meron Medzini, "Israeli Civilians in the 1967 Six Day War", in: P.R Kumarawamy, Caught in Crossfire: Civilians in Conflicts in the Middle East, Ithaca Press, 2008, pp.31-54.

Class 23 (Apr.11) - Atonement in October 1973

Anita Shapira, Israel: A History, pp.326-339.

Charles S. Liebman, "The Myth of Defeat: The Memory of the Yom Kippur War in Israeli Society", Middle Eastern Studies, 29 (1993), pp. 399-418.

Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, "Israeli Civilians during the 1973 Yom Kippur War", in: P.R Kumarawamy, Caught in Crossfire, pp.55-74. Film: "Kippur"; Director: Amos Gitai, Israel 2000.

Class 24 (Apr. 16) – No Class

Class 25 (Apr.18) – Protest, Political and Social Movements

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.123-146.

David Newman, "A Comparative Study of Gush Emunim and Peace Now, Middle Eastern Studies, 28, 3 (1982), 509-530.

Deborah Bernstein, "Conflict and Protest in Israeli Society: The Case of the Black Panthers of Israel", Youth and Society, 16 (1984), pp.129-152.

Class 26 (Apr.23) – The Ideological Right and the Political Upheaval

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.147-174.

Amos Perlmutter, The Life and Times of Menachem Begine, New York, 1987, pp.301- 396.

Amos Oz, In the , New York, 1984, pp.51-74.

Sari Nusseibeh and Anthony David, Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life, New York, 2007, pp. 235-263.

Class 27 (Apr.25) – State, Religion and the Politics of Identities

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.175-226.

David Lehmann and Batia Siebzehner, Remaking Israeli Judaism: the Challenge of Shas, Oxford, 2006, pp.120-168.

Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp.137-158.

Class 28 (Apr.30) – Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Peace

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.227-266.

Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography, Oxford, 2003, pp.125-160.

Anita Shapira, "From the Generation to the Candle Children; Changing Patterns in Israeli Identity", Partisan Review, 67, 4(2000), 622-634. Film: Out of Love – Be Back Shortly, Director: Dan Katzir, Israel 1997.

Class 29 (May.2)–Urban Biography: Between and Jerusalem

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.267-288.

Tom Segev, Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel", New York, 2002, pp.49-78, 115-156.

Oz Almog, "The Globalization of Israel: Transformations", in: Anita Shapira (ed.), Israeli Identity in Transition, Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004, pp.233-257.

Class 30 (May.7) – Conclusion: History and Memory

Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, pp.289-350.

Alon Confino, "Remembering Talbiyah: On Edward Said's 'Out of Place'," Israel Studies, 5/2 (Fall 2000), pp.182-198.

Amnon Rubinstein, "The End of the Myth", The Zionist Dream Revisited, New York, 1984, pp.127-155.