Contested Land, Contested Memory

Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

Jo Roberts

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781459710139
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Advance Praise for Contested Land, Contested Memory
• Contents
• List of Maps
• Acknowledgements
• The State of Israel in 1949
• Introduction
• Chapter One
• Chapter Two
• Chapter Three
• Chapter Four
• Chapter Five
• Chapter Six
• Chapter Seven
• Chapter Eight
• Chapter nine
• Appendix
• Notes
• Glossary
• About the Author
• Copyright