{"product_id":"9781459710139","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.","brand":"Dundurn Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47143680049392,"sku":"9781459710139","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781459710139_p0.jpg?v=1763872095","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781459710139","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}