{"product_id":"contested-land-contested-memory-israels-jews-and-arabs-and-the-ghosts-of-catastrophe-9781459710115","title":"Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe","description":"\u003ci\u003e 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize -- Nonfiction Runner Up\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe complex histories and memories of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today frame Israel's future possibilities for peace.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 Palestinian Israelis now engage with the histories of the Palestinian Nakba (\"Catastrophe\") and the Holocaust, and how do these echo through the political and physical landscapes of their country? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vividly narrated, with extensive original interview material, \u003ci\u003eContested Land, Contested Memory\u003c\/i\u003e examines how these tangled histories of suffering inform Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli lives today, and frame Israel's possibilities for peace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jo Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dundurn Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781459710115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrained in her native England as a lawyer and anthropologist, Jo Roberts is now a freelance writer. For five years she was managing editor of the New York \u003ci\u003eCatholic Worker\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper, to which she frequently contributed. Her reportage from Israel and from the West Bank has appeared in \u003cem\u003eEmbassy\u003c\/em\u003e, Canada's foreign policy weekly. She lives in Toronto, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45470918312051,"sku":"9781459710115","price":28.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ec86d285-3210-4cc0-b745-e6139a9b7fe1.jpg?v=1789049088","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/contested-land-contested-memory-israels-jews-and-arabs-and-the-ghosts-of-catastrophe-9781459710115","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}