Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe BISAC-CKB041000 ISBN13: 9780991105014

ISBN13: 9780991105014

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Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe BISAC-CKB041000 ISBN13: 9780991105014NOMINATED for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize 2014 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