The Bible, Hayden White, and the Settlements
Teaching Religious Zionist History in the Postmodern Era
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Abstract
In recent decades, the impact of postmodern approaches to history teaching has triggered an extensive worldwide debate that accommodates diverse and contrasting voices. This article examines how the education system of Religious Zionism, one of the most important ideological movements in Israel, copes with this issue. This inquiry, which is based on Peter Seixas's conceptualization, analyzes the system's history curriculum, its latest textbooks, and an array of lesson plans. The analysis reveals a complex method of coping with postmodernism, including the adoption of clearly postmodern attitudes at the declarative level and the neutralization of their influence in practice.
Contributor Notes
Roy Weintraub is a PhD candidate at the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University specializing in the teaching of history in Israel. His current research, supervised by Eyal Naveh, focuses on the development of historical consciousness in Israel's state–religious education system. Email: royweintraub@mail.tau.ac.il