The Cherrick Center for the study of Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2022 Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies.
Shay Hazkani, Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Stanford University Press, 2021)
The Korenblat Book Award in Israel Studies was established in 2021 by Dr. Phillip Korenblat in honor of his late brothe, Dr. Steven Korenblat. The award marks an exceptional scholarly contribution in the field of Israel Studies, and honors each year a book of outstanding merit in either Hebrew or English by scholars at all stages of their career. In making this year’s award, the selection committee wrote:
“Dear Palestine marks a paradigm shift in the study of the relations between Jews and Arabs. In an engaging and literary style, Shay Hazkani orchestrates numerous letters and diaries of Jewish and Arab soldiers during the 1948 War, in addition to military journals, pamphlets, and radio broadcasts of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab League’s volunteer army. This is a microhistory of the ordinary individuals who withstood indoctrination and cooptation, sometime against their best interests. It is a story that quietly defies monolithic and binary perceptions passed down by nationalist histories. In their stead, Hazkani offers a relational account that listens to a more nuanced human network which steers this commendable and unpretentiously radical book.”
Prof. Shay Hazkani lecture: Dear Palestine — thoughts and afterthoughts. Wednesday, December 7, 2022