The conflict between Israel and Palestine has raised a plethora of unanswered questions, generated seemingly irreconcilable narratives, and profoundly transformed the land’s physical and political geography. This volume seeks to provide a deeper understanding of the links between the region that is now known as Israel and Palestine and its peoples—both those that live there as well as those who relate to it as a mental, mythical, or religious landscape. Engaging the perspectives of a multidisciplinary, international group of scholars, it is an urgent collective reflection on the bonds between people and a place, whether real or imagined, tangible as its stones or ephemeral as the hopes and longings it evokes.
Edited by:
Omer Bartov
Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781805393290
ISBN 10: 1805393294
Pages: 540
Publication Date: 07 June 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction: Lands and Peoples: Attachment, Conflict, and Reconciliation Omer Bartov Part I: Trauma and Displacement Chapter 1. The Political Theology of Eretz Yisra’el: The Nakba and the Hasidic Immigration to Palestine Hannan Hever Chapter 2. Western European “Philosemitism” and the Nakba in the 1950s G. Daniel Cohen Chapter 3. “You Just Can’t Compare”: Holocaust Comparisons and Discourses of Israel/Palestine Lital Levy Chapter 4. International Human Rights Aspects of Repatriating Israeli Settlers from the West Bank Yaël Ronen Part II: Redrawing Space Chapter 5. Oil and the Origins of Middle Eastern Sovereignty Rachel Havrelock Chapter 6. Territory, Demography, and Effective Control: An Analysis of Israel’s Biospatial Politics Yinon Cohen & Neve Gordon Chapter 7. Come to Netanya: A New Reading of Israel’s Planning History Noah Hysler Rubin Chapter 8. Architecture and the Struggle over Geography: Revisiting the Arab Village in Israel/Palestine Haim Yacobi & Hadas Shadar Part III: Education and Ideology Chapter 9. Contested Pedagogy: Modern Hebrew Education and the Segregation of National Communities in Pre-State Palestine Miriam Szamet Chapter 10. The Biblical Borders between Theology and History: Israeli Schoolbook Maps, 1903-1967 Orna Vaadia Chapter 11. Zionist Civic Rituals as Nation-Building Instruments Avner Ben-Amos Chapter 12. Rival Histories in a Deeply Divided Society: The Israeli Case Majid Ibrahim Al-Haj Part IV: Nationalism, Settler Colonialism, and Decolonization Chapter 13. Three Paradigms for Understanding the Israel/Palestine Conflict Sam Fleischhacker Chapter 14. Thinking about State Demise: The Case of Israel Ian Lustick Chapter 15. Decolonizing Israel/Palestine: A Discourse or a Political Program? Ilan Pappé Chapter 16. What Would a Decolonized Archaeology of Israel/Palestine Look Like? Raphael Greenberg Part V: Future Scenarios Chapter 17. Reinstating Apartheid or Stating the Obvious? 1948 Palestinians and Israel’s New Nation State Law Nida Shoughry Chapter 18. Palestinians in Israel: The Undesirable Others Said Zeedani Chapter 19. The Demography of Return Salman Abu Sitta Chapter 20. When Utopia Becomes Topia: Mapping the Future in Israel/Palestine Debby Farber & Umar al-Ghubari Afterword: Between Talbiyeh and Me Alon Confino
Omer Bartov is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University. His books include Hitler’s Army (1991), Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), and Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018).
Reviews for Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples
“This interdisciplinary volume is an important contribution to the growing attempts to rethink Israel/Palestine and to identify new venues for decolonization and historical reconciliation. Focusing on attachment and belonging to the land, and aware of the colonial power asymmetries between the Palestinian Arabs and the Israeli Jews, Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples is essential reading for those interested in exploring new trends in the scholarship on this topic.” • Bashir Bashir, The Open University of Israel and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. “Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples represents a brave endeavor by Israeli and Jewish scholars to explore the deep currents of the Zionist-Palestinian conflict. It seriously deals with the profound importance of space, time, colonization, displacement and trauma for both nations. Guided by critical perspectives, this excellent multidisciplinary effort illuminates many hidden aspects of the transformation of the land, where Palestinians are still denied their historical rights and justice.” • Oren Yiftachel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
