ISBN:
0521194474
,
9780521194471
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 243 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
,
23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 32
Series Statement:
Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat Remembering Palestine in 1948
DDC:
956.042
Keywords:
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Personal narratives, Israeli
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Personal narratives, Palestinian Arab
;
Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Personal narratives, British
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Influence
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Collective memory
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Collective memory
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Arab-Israeli conflict Social aspects
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Nahostkonflikt
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Geschichte 1948-1949
;
Oral history
Abstract:
"The war of 1948 in Palestine is a conflict whose history has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens to these narratives when they arise out of the personal stories of those who were involved, stories that are still unfolding. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, an Israeli anthropologist, examines the memories of those who participated in and were affected by the events of 1948, and how these events have been mythologized over time. This is a three-way conversation between Palestinian villagers, Jewish-Israeli veterans, and British policemen who were stationed in Palestine on the eve of the war. Each has his or her story to tell. Across the years, these witnesses relived their past in private within family circles and tightly knit groups, through gatherings and pilgrimages to sites of villages and battles, or through naming and storytelling. Rarely have their stories been revealed to an outsider. As Dr. Ben-Ze'ev discovers, these small-scale truths, which were collected from people at the dusk of their lives and previously overshadowed by nationalized histories, shed new light on the Palestinian-Israel conflict, as it was then and as it has become"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I. Constructing Palestine: National Projects: 1. The framework; 2. The British cartographic imagination and Palestine; 3. Cartographic practices in Palestine: British, Jewish, and Arab, 1938-1948 -- Part II. Palestine-Arab Memories in the Making: 4. 1948 from a local point of view: the Palestinian village of Ijzim; 5. Rural Palestinian women: witnessing and the domestic sphere; 6. Underground memories: collecting traces of the Palestinian past -- Part III. Jewish-Israeli Memories in the Making: 7. Palmach fighters: stories and silences; 8. The Palmach women -- Part IV. British Mandatory Memories in the Making: 9. Carrying out the mandate: British policemen in Palestine; Conclusions and implications.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index
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