New Jews, Old Jews

Anita Shapira

1997

The Point of Conflict between the Models

…The rationalist model related to Jewish history and the Diaspora as accidents that could be corrected. It did not devote much thought to the past, but concentrated on a critique of the present and mainly on plotting the future course. The Diaspora was seen as a function of the attitude of the gentiles…

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Anita Shapira

b. 1940

Anita Shapira, an influential historian of labor Zionism, was born in Poland and came to Israel at ageseven. Shapira grew up in Tel Aviv. She is a professor of Jewish history, a found er of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies in 1996 and was head of the Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University in 2000. She received the Israel Prize in 2008.

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