Remembering Palestine in 1948 - Beyond National Narratives

Informationen zum Autor Efrat Ben-Ze'ev is Senior Lecturer of Social Anthropology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at the Ruppin Academic Center in Israel, and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is editor, with Ruth Ginio and Jay Winter, of Shadows of War: A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Klappentext This book examines the memories of those affected by the Palestinian war of 1948, and how it has been mythologized over time. Zusammenfassung The history of the 1948 war in Palestine has been written primarily from the national point of view. This book asks what happens to these narratives when they arise out of personal stories. Efrat Ben-Ze'ev examines the memories of those affected by the war! and how events have been mythologized. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Constructing Palestine: National Projects: 1. The framework; 2. The British cartographic imagination and Palestine; 3. Cartographic practices in Palestine: British, Jewish, and Arabs, 1938-48; Part II. Palestine-Arabs 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; Conclusion and implications.

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• Authors: &apos, Efrat Ben Ze'ev, Ben-Ze&apos, Efrat (Academic Centre Ruppin Ben-Ze'ev, Efrat Ben-Ze''ev, Efrat (Academic Centre Ruppin Ben-Ze''ev, Ben-Ze'ev Efrat, Efrat ev, Efrat Ben Ze'Ev
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521194471
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19447-1
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, c 1950 to c 1959, Middle Eastern history, Palestine, C 1945 To C 1960