Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe by Roberts, Jo (9781459710115)

Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe

by Roberts, Jo

Paperback - English

The Holocaust and the Nakba ("Catastrophe," Palestinian Israelis' name for the War of Independence) both marked Israel's founding, and these two world-changing events continue to form the generations who have followed. This book shows how these complex histories play out in the lives of Jewish and Palestinian Israelis today.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1459710118

EAN

9781459710115

Publisher

DUNDURN PR LTD

Publication Date

10 Sep 2013

Pages

304

Weight (kg)

0.43

Dimensions (cm)

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3

Award(s)

Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Runner-Up

About Author

Trained 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 "Catholic Worker newspaper", to which she frequently contributed. Her reportage from Israel and from the West Bank has appeared in Embassy, Canada's foreign policy weekly. She lives in Toronto, Canada.