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Susan Slyomovics - The Object of Memory - 9780812215250 - V9780812215250
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The Object of Memory

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Description for The Object of Memory Paperback. "Well researched and written with passion and elegance."-International Journal of Middle East Studies Num Pages: 320 pages, 42 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; JFC; JFSG; JFSR1; JFSR2. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 161 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 536.

There was a village in Palestine called Ein Houd, whose people traced their ancestry back to one of Saladin's generals who was granted the territory as a reward for his prowess in battle. By the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, all the inhabitants of Ein Houd had been dispersed or exiled or had gone into hiding, although their old stone homes were not destroyed.

In 1953 the Israeli government established an artists' cooperative community in the houses of the village, now renamed Ein Hod. In the meantime, the Arab inhabitants of Ein Houd moved two kilometers up a neighboring ... Read more

The Palestinians have not gone home. The two villages—Jewish Ein Hod and the new Arab Ein Houd—continue to exist in complex and dynamic opposition. The Object of Memory explores the ways in which the people of Ein Houd and Ein Hod remember and reconstruct their past in light of their present—and their present in light of their past.

Honorable Mention, 1999 Perkins Book Prize, Society for the Study of Narrative

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812215250
SKU
V9780812215250
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About Susan Slyomovics
By Susan Slyomovics

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