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Simha Flapan

Simha Flapan (Hebrew: שמחה פלפן; 27 January 1911 – 13 April 1987)[1] 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.[2][3]

Simha Flapan

(1911-01-27)27 January 1911

Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Congress Poland

13 April 1987(1987-04-13) (aged 76)

Israel
  • Historian
  • politician

Mapam

Israel's "New Historians"

Biography[edit]

Simha Flapan was born in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Congress Poland. He died on 13 April 1987 in Israel.

Political activism[edit]

Flapan was National Secretary of the left Zionist Mapam party, and the director of its Arab Affairs department from 1959 to the mid-1970s; he also edited New Outlook magazine—a non-party monthly that promoted Arab-Jewish rapprochement.[4]

Flapan, Simha (1979). (PDF). London: Croom Helm. ISBN 0-85664-499-4.

Zionism and the Palestinians

Flapan, Simha (1987). (PDF). New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-394-55888-X.

The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities