Abstract
This study compares two instances of public discourse on history: Historikerstreit (historians' debate) in Germany and recent polemic between so-called Old and New Historians in Israel. The well-known public debate in Germany was sparked off in July 1986 by an attack of philosopher and social theorist Jiirgen Habermas on what he called the apologetic tendencies in writing of German contemporary history, which he published in weekly Die Zeit. The current public debate in Israel started in June 1994 with broadside fired by writer Aharon Megged in daily Ha'Aretz against what he called a suicidal
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