Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe BISAC-CKB041000 elegies (The cold edge of

elegies (The cold edge of the world closed on you

ISBN13: 9780991105014

Published: 05/10/2005

interracial handshake between ballplayers is attacked by a knife-wielding assailant at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington

Spain's Catalonia underwent a sweeping transformation when it was thrust into not one

Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe BISAC-CKB041000 elegies (The cold edge ofNOMINATED 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