Contested land, contested memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the ghosts of catastrophe

Author
Roberts, Jo
Publisher
Dundurn
Year
2013
Language
English
Keywords
Call Number
DS119.7 .R564 2013
ISBN
9781459710115
Reference Only
Off
Number of Pages
302
Library of Congress Subject Heading
Jewish-Arab relations -- History
Library of Congress Subject Heading 2
Jews -- Israel -- History
Abstract

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.