Simha Flapan (; 27 January 191113 April 1987) was an Israeli historian and politician. He is known for his book ''The Birth of Israel: Myths And Realities'', published in the year of his death.
Biography
Simha Flapan was born in
Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (, or ''Tomashuv'') is a city in central Poland with 60,529 inhabitants (2021). It is the fourth most populous city in the Łódź Voivodeship and the second with free public transport. It is the seat of Tomaszów County, Ł ...
,
Congress Poland
Congress Poland or Congress Kingdom of Poland, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland, was a polity created in 1815 by the Congress of Vienna as a semi-autonomous Polish state, a successor to Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. It was established w ...
. He died on 13 April 1987 in Israel.
Political activism
Flapan was National Secretary of the
left
Left may refer to:
Music
* ''Left'' (Hope of the States album), 2006
* ''Left'' (Monkey House album), 2016
* ''Left'' (Helmet album), 2023
* "Left", a song by Nickelback from the album ''Curb'', 1996
Direction
* Left (direction), the relativ ...
Zionist
Zionism is an Ethnic nationalism, ethnocultural nationalist movement that emerged in History of Europe#From revolution to imperialism (1789–1914), Europe in the late 19th century that aimed to establish and maintain a national home for the ...
Mapam
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rect 167 83 445 250 Hapoel Hatzair
rect 450 88 717 265 The non-partisans (pre-state Zionist political movement), Non Partisans
rect 721 86 995 243 ...
party, and the director of its
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
Affairs department from 1959 to the mid-1970s; he also edited ''New Outlook'' magazine—a non-party monthly that promoted Arab-Jewish rapprochement.
Views and opinions
Flapan was one of the
New Historians, a term coined by
Benny Morris
Benny Morris (; born 8 December 1948) is an Israeli historian. He was a professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel. Morris was initially associated with the ...
in the 1980s. In the preface to ''Zionism and the Palestinians'' (1979), Flapan writes:
Flapan's personal and professional archives are located at Yad Yaari,
Hashomer Hatzair
Hashomer Hatzair (, , 'The Young Guard') is a Labor Zionism, Labor Zionist, secular Jewish youth movement founded in 1913 in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary. It was also the name of the Hashomer Hatzair Workers Party, the ...
Research and Documentation Center at
Givat Haviva.
Published works
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References
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1911 births
1987 deaths
20th-century Israeli historians
20th-century Israeli Jews
Jewish historians
Jewish Israeli writers
Mapam politicians
New Historians
People from Tomaszów Mazowiecki
Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Burials at South Cemetery in Israel