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- 1From:Israel Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWhy are we obsessed with the sense of belonging? Why are new frames of belonging invented in different eras? How is the urban fabric being used for this task? The memoryscape practices in Haifa post-1948 War are...
- 2From:Israel Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe two Israeli historic-documentary series--AmudHa'esh (Pillar of Fire-POF) and Tkumah (Revival--TK)--have as a central subject the 1948 War, a major signpost in the Arab-Israeli on-going conflict. During the 20-year...
- 3From:Biography (Vol. 38, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION Autobiographical sources such as diaries offer a unique perspective into an individual's life and into his or her views on the social history of the period. The source material examined here comes from a...
- 4From:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines Yoram Kaniuk's acclaimed 2010 fictionalized memoir, Tasha"h (1948) in the context of Hebrew literature's reaction to the War of Independence and to the Nakba. Placing an emphasis on the narrative's...
- 5From:Israel Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
Wa-ma Nasayna (We have not forgotten): Palestinian collective memory and the print work of Abed Abdi
Palestinian art created within Israel's 1948 borders possesses unique characteristics deriving from its being part of the visual culture of the Palestinian minority in Israel. In this artistic-national construct,... - 6From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 18, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn spring 1965 the Israel Land Administration (ILA) initiated the demolition of houses in Arab villages that had been abandoned during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, a project that was subsequently extended to the...
- 7From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 15) Peer-ReviewedAt the height of Israel's 1948 war, women's columns in the newspapers Ha'aretz and Ma'ariv offered readers advice, stories, and letters. They focused on domestic practices such as preparing food, sewing clothes,...
- 8From:Shofar (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Wounded in body and spirit following his participation in Israel's War of Independence, Yoram Kaniuk's (1930-2013) protagonist of several key and stylistically sophisticated America-centered novels escapes...
- 9From:Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues (Issue 33) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents the almost unknown stories of the 96 women POWs in Israel's 1948 War of Independence and endeavors to analyze their experience of captivity and the perceptions that accompanied it, from the moment...
- 10From:Israel Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA country's official memory of a conflict in which it is involved is of great importance. One of the main presenters of that memory is the Ministry of Education, through the history and civics textbooks it approves for...
- 11From:Nebula (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and ... compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not...
- 12From:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDuring the 1948 Israeli War of Independence, Abba Kovner--Holocaust survivor, Jewish partisan and poet--served as an educational officer in the Givati Brigade, writing more than 30 battle missives between June 1948 and...
- 13From:Israel Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe article chronicles the way in which Israel's main institution for the dissemination of information (the national Publications Agency) described, between the early 1950s and 2004, the causes of 1948 Palestinian...
- 14From:Israel Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPREFACE This special issue of Israel Studies consists of a collection of studies of Israeli representations, both Jewish and Palestinian, of memory and historical narratives of the 1948 War. The studies map and...
- 15From:Israel Studies (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMuch of the recent academic literature on the 1948 war portray it a one-sided---and thus simplistic--ethnic cleansing of the Arab population of Palestine. Referred to as the Naqba paradigm, it features the Jews/Zionists...
- 16From:Jewish Social Studies (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThough written decades apart and in two different languages (Arabic and Hebrew), Emile Habiby's The Pessoptimist, Anton Shammas's Arabesques, and Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun are interrelated novels in a broader...
- 17From:Israel Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper aims to shed light on a significant aspect of the Nakba and of Emile Habibi's oeuvre that has received little if any attention. It examines the ways in which Emile Habibi systematically deals in his...
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- 19From:Israel Studies (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDuring Israel's War of Independence evacuees from the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City were resettled in the abandoned Arab neighborhood of Qatamon only to be threatened soon after with eviction and replacement by...
- 20From:Borderlands (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBy analyzing the voices of colonized Palestinian men and women who managed to return to their homes following their expulsion in 1948, this study uncovers the layers of state criminality that mark the returnees as...