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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
Jo Roberts
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dundurn Press Canada
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781459710115
SKU
V9781459710115
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About Jo Roberts
Trained in her native England as a lawyer and anthropologist, Jo Roberts is now a freelance writer. For five years she was managing editor of the New York Catholic Worker newspaper, to which she frequently contributed. Her reportage from Israel and from the West Bank has appeared in Embassy, Canada’s foreign policy weekly. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
Reviews for Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
. . . Roberts provides an engaging introduction to the significance of collective memory in Israeli and Palestinian education, geography, and law. What results is a diverse anthology of the ways these divergent memories affect the current culture and conflict.
Mondoweiss.net
In this moving, lyrical, and very important book, with some of the bravest and most honest of ... Read more
Mondoweiss.net
In this moving, lyrical, and very important book, with some of the bravest and most honest of ... Read more