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Palestinian Collective Memory and National Identity

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Meir Litvak

    1. Tel Aviv, Israel

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Collective Memory and the Palestinian Experience

    • Meir Litvak
    Pages 1-26

  3. The Evolution of a Founding Myth: The Nakba and Its Fluctuating Meaning

    • Esther Webman
    Pages 27-45

  4. The Memory that Never Dies: The Nakba Memory and the Palestinian National Movement

    • Michael Milshtein
    Pages 47-69

  5. Memory “from Below”: Palestinian Society and the Nakba Memory

    • Michael Milshtein
    Pages 71-96

  6. Constructing a National Past: The Palestinian Case

    • Meir Litvak
    Pages 97-133

  7. Historical Discourse in the Media of the Palestinian National Authority

    • Sariel Birnbaum
    Pages 135-168

  8. Palestinian Women and Collective Memory

    • Hanita Brand
    Pages 169-192

  9. A Dream of Severance: Crisis of Identity in Palestinian Fiction in Israel

    • Mahmud Ghanayim
    Pages 193-216

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 217-246
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This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern Palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping Palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 Palestinian elections.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tel Aviv, Israel

    Meir Litvak

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MEIR LITVAK is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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