Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
Jo Roberts$21.24
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2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize -- Nonfiction Runner Up
The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel's future possibilities for peace.
1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.
After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased - from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and Palestinian Israelis now engage with the histories of the Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe") and the Holocaust, and how do these echo through the political and physical landscapes of their country?
Vividly narrated, with extensive original interview material, Contested Land, Contested Memory examines how these tangled histories of suffering inform Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli lives today, and frame Israel's possibilities for peace.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 09/10/2013
ISBN: 9781459710115
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/30/2013
The complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel's future possibilities for peace.
1948: As Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle toward the new State of Israel, Arab refugees are fleeing, many under duress. Sixty years later, the memory of trauma has shaped both peoples' collective understanding of who they are.
After a war, the victors write history. How was the story of the exiled Palestinians erased - from textbooks, maps, even the land? How do Jewish and Palestinian Israelis now engage with the histories of the Palestinian Nakba ("Catastrophe") and the Holocaust, and how do these echo through the political and physical landscapes of their country?
Vividly narrated, with extensive original interview material, Contested Land, Contested Memory examines how these tangled histories of suffering inform Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli lives today, and frame Israel's possibilities for peace.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dundurn Group
Published: 09/10/2013
ISBN: 9781459710115
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
Award: National Jewish Book Award - Finalist
Award: Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/30/2013