Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial.(Book review)

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Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial, by Leora Bilsky. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 378 pp. $24.95.

Leora Bilsky in her book Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial combines an outstanding grasp of historical subject matter and an original insight into the role four outstanding trials played in shaping Israeli collective identity. The book is engaged with four trials: the Kastner trial (1954-58), the Kufr Qassem trial (1956-57); the Adolf Eichmann trial (1960-62), and the Yigal Amir trial (1996). She describes these trials not as show ...

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