Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, ISBN: 978-3-031-62795-8

ISRAEL’S NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHY: BETWEEN GENERATIONS, IDENTIFY AND STATE

The book analyses the development of Israel’s national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias’ historical and figurational sociology, the book examines the different phases and generations in Israel in light of the collective habitus and the nation-state survival unit, set by Zionism. It does so by putting in relation the intellectual profession of history-writing and the processes of state and identity building. It processually pursues the autonomization of the historiographical field in Israel from its socio-genesis in pre-state Israel to recent decades.

Alon Helled is a post-doctoral fellow and an adjunct lecturer at the University of Turin, Italy.