Roy Weintraub- Doctor of Philosophy
- Postdoctoral fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Roy Weintraub
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Postdoctoral fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Researching history education in Israel. The Israeli-Palestinain conflict; Holocaust education; Historical thinking...
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This article deals with history education in the course of Israel’s first two decades and the previously underexplored struggle between State Religious Education (SRE) and the State Education (SE) system. The constraints of history education within the SRE by Israel’s Ministry of Education resulted in the suppression of religious elements that info...
The Nakba, which means “the catastrophe” in Arabic, is the most controversial historical topic in Israeli history education. Despite the Nakba’s significance to the history of Israel and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, until the last decade it has traditionally been excluded from Israeli public discourse and school curriculum. This articl...
This article uses the dramatic education reforms that taking place in the Israel to explore the question of 'Why History Education?' in the Israeli context. Using a wide variety of sources-from official curricula through matriculation tests to lesson plans-the article conducts a diachronic analysis spanning eight decades, from the establishment of...
This article examines the key category defining multiculturalism in Israeli history education: the representation of North African and Middle Eastern Jewry, aka Mizrahim. Applying Nordgren’s and Johansson’s conceptualisation, the article explores the changes in this subject from the establishment of Israel to the present day. The diachronic textual...
Modern historical research challenges religious education by undermining the arguments in favour of the existence of a supreme power who is responsible for patterns of reality. This article explores how the new generation of history textbooks of Religious Zionism, one of Israel’s ideologically most influential populations, cope with this dilemma. T...
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 o...
