Yoav Gelber
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Yoav Gelber (
University of Texas
at Austin.
He was born in
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an expert on the history of the Israel Defense Forces.[1] Gelber is also known to have been a vocal opponent of Ilan Pappé when the latter was employed by the University of Haifa, and a defender of the Alexandroni Brigade in the Tantura massacre case.[1][2][3]
In 1973 Gelber served as the academic and military assistant to the Agranat Commission, and in 1982 participated in the official inquiry into the 1933 death of Haim Arlosoroff.[4]
Works
- Jewish Palestinian Volunteering in the British Army during the Second World War, Vol. I: Volunteering and its Role in Zionist Policy 1939-1942, (Hebrew, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 1979).
- Jewish Palestinian Volunteering in the British Army during the Second World War, Vol. II, The Struggle for a Jewish Army, (Hebrew, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 1981). ISBN 965-217-002-X
- Jewish Palestinian Volunteering in the British Army during the Second World War, Vol. III. The Standard Bearers - The Mission of the Volunteers to the Jewish People, (Hebrew, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 1983).
- Jewish Palestinian Volunteering in the British Army during the Second World War, Vol. IV, Jewish Volunteers in British Units, (Hebrew, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 1984).
- The Emergence of a Jewish Army - The Veterans of the British Army in the IDF (Hebrew, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem 1986);
- Why the Palmach Was Disbanded? - The Jewish Military Force in the Transition from a Yishuv to a State 1947-1949 (Hebrew, Schocken, Tel Aviv 1986);
- With Walter Goldstern: Emigration deutsch-sprachiger Ingenieure nach Palaestina 1933-1945 (VDI Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1988). ("Emigration of German-speaking engineers to Palestine, 1933-1945")
- Massada - The Defense of Palestine in the Second World War (Hebrew, Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat-Gan, 1990).
- A New Homeland - The Immigration from Central Europe and its Absorption in Eretz Israel 1933-1948 (Hebrew, Leo Baeck Institute and Yad Izhak Ben- Zvi, Jerusalem 1990).
- The History of Israeli Intelligence, Part I: Growing a Fleur-de-Lis: The Intelligence Services of the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine, 1918-1947 (Hebrew, Israel Ministry of Defense Publications), 2 Vols. Tel Aviv 1992.
- Jewish-Transjordanian Relations, 1921-1948 (English, Frank Cass, London & Portland 1996).
- The History of Israeli Intelligence, Part II: Budding a Fleur-de-Lis: Israeli Intelligence in the War of Independence, 1947-1949 (Hebrew, 2 vols. Israel Ministry of Defense Publications, Tel Aviv 2001).
- The History of Israeli Intelligence, Part III: 1949-1953, Vol. I-III (Hebrew, Classified edition, an IDF publication, 1999–2000).
- Palestine 1948: War, Escape and the Emergence of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton & Portland 2001.
- Independence Versus Nakbah: The Arab–Israeli War of 1948 (Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Hebrew, 2004).
- Israeli-Jordanian Dialogue, 1948-1953: Cooperation, Conspiracy, or Collusion? (Sussex Academic Press, May 2004).
- Nation and History: Israeli Historiography between Zionism and Post-Zionism, Vallentine Mitchell, February 2011.
- The Jihad That Wasn't, a review of "1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War" by Benny Morris, Azureonline, Automn 2008, n°34.
- Attrition: The Forgotten War (Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Hebrew, 2017)
- The Time of the Palestinians: Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians, 1967-1970 (Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, Hebrew, 2018)
References
- ^ a b Tom Segev: His colleagues call him a traitor (Haaretz, 23 May 2002).
- ^ Neri Livneh: Post-Zionism only rings once (Haaretz, 20 September 2001).
- ^ There's a Mass Palestinian Grave at a Popular Israeli Beach, Veterans Confess, Adam Raz, Jan. 20, 2022, Haaretz
- ISBN 978-1-84519-075-0.
External links
- Prof. Yoav Gelber Website at the University of Haifa
- The Disease of "Post-Zionism", 8 July 2007.
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