A Tale of Two Narratives: The Holocaust, the Nakba, and the Israeli-Palestinian Battle of Memories

ISBN-13: 9781108840286 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 325 str.

Grace Wermenbol

Opis

Explores the transmission - and perpetuation - of conflict narratives in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian society since the signing of the Oslo Accords.

Recenzje

'this is an important book, and Wermenbol's meticulous research will be of insight and good use to scholars … It is the merit of Wermenbol to have written an important book on a most difficult topic, thus expanding the scholarship on the memory relations of the Holocaust and the Nakba.' Alon Confino, The Middle East Journal

Spis treści

Introduction; The post-oslo period: a historical overview; Part I. The Textbook of Memory: 1.The holocaust in Israeli textbooks: death and deliverance; 2.Teaching the nakba: old wounds, new textbooks; Part II. The Landscape of Memory: 3. Recreating and reclaiming the lost homeland; 4. A past that does not pass; Part III. Scoop on the Past: 5. Never forget and never again; 6. Preserving the past, mobilizing the past; Conclusion; Bibliography; Interviews.