Articles by Gabriel Piterberg
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Euro-Zionism and its Discontents
in NLR 84, November-December 2013, pp. 43-65
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Engagement with the work of Hebrew poet Yitzhak Laor on the origins and function of the new Holocaust remembrance culture in Germany, Italy and France. What relation does this bear to parallel developments in Israel and the United States?
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Settlers and their States
in NLR 62, March-April 2010, pp. 115-124
Subjects: Palestine/Israel
Responding to Sternhell, Gabriel Piterberg insists on Israel’s comparability to other settler-colonial projects—as well as on the specificities, historical and ideological, of the Zionist enterprise.
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Converts to Colonizers?
in NLR 59, September-October 2009, pp. 145-151
Subjects: History and Historiography , Palestine/Israel
Gabriel Piterberg on Shlomo Sand, When and How Was the Jewish People Invented?. Heterodox attempt to refute Israel’s founding myths of historical exile.
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Zion's Rebel Daughter
in NLR 48, November-December 2007, pp. 48-59
Subjects: Biography and Intellectual History , Palestine/Israel
Principally known for works on totalitarianism and the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt’s powerful and prophetic critiques of the Zionist project, written in the 1940s, have rarely been discussed. Gabriel Piterberg tracks the evolution of this brave and independent thinker.
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Hannah Arendt in Tel Aviv
in NLR 21, May-June 2003, pp. 137-146
Subjects: Palestine/Israel
Gabriel Piterberg on Idith Zertal, Death and the Nation. The uses of the Shoah in the official construction of memory in Israel, amid the specif icities of time in the history of Zionism.
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Postcards from Palestine
in NLR 17, September-October 2002, pp. 150-157
Subjects: Architecture , Palestine/Israel
Gabriel Piterberg on Daniel Monk, An Aesthetic Occupation. Imaginations of the Dome of the Rock and Wailing Wall under the British Mandate, and their political decontextualization today.
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Erasing the Palestinians
in NLR 10, July-August 2001, pp. 31-46
Subjects: Nationalism , Palestine/Israel
How the founding myths of Israel dictated conceptual removal of Palestinians, during and after physical removal. The invention of ‘retroactive transfer’ and ‘present absentees’ as the glacial euphemisms of ethnic cleansing.
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