Israel Studies Publication: Representations of Israeli-Jewish - Israeli-Palestinian Memory and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War

Israel Studies Publication: Representations of Israeli-Jewish - Israeli-Palestinian Memory and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War

Abstract:

This special issue 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 explain some Israeli-Jewish and Israeli-Palestinian perspectives of the 1948 War as represented in literature, historical museums, art, visual media, and landscape, as well as in competing official and societal narratives. They are examined especially against the backdrop of the Oslo process, which had strongly brought into relief tensions within and between both sides of the national divide concerning identity and legitimacy, justice, and righteousness of "self” and "other”.

 

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