Efrat Ben-Ze'ev

Remembering Palestine in 1948

Beyond National Narratives

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the memories of those affected by the Palestinian war of 1948, and how it has been mythologized over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9781107685970
• ISBN-10: 1107685974
• Artikelnr.: 40557827

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.