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"During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to 'disaster' or 'catastrophe' - lays bare the violence of the ongoing Palestinian plight. Voices of the Nakba collects the stories of first-generation Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, documenting a watershed moment in the history of the modern Middle East through the voices of the people who lived through it. The interviews, with commentary from leading scholars of Palestine and the Middle East, offer a vivid journey into the history, politics and culture of Palestine, defining Palestinian popular memory on its own terms in all its plurality and complexity"--Publisher.

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Refugees --- Palestinian Arabs --- Palestine --- History

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"This book recasts the 1948 war in Palestine through a socio-cultural history of the conflict's ordinary actors and its transnational reverberations. It draws on untapped personal letters of Jews and Arabs from the war, most of whom fought in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), or the Arab League's volunteer army, known as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA). The examination of these letters challenges the war accounts of politicians and generals, whose words continue to shape histories of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These conventional accounts of the war in Palestine suggest clearly drawn battle lines, and an intractable present and future. "Dear Palestine," meanwhile, shows that the stories ordinary people told themselves about the war were far more diverse and complex than the nationalist fervor and unquestioning loyalty to the cause usually imputed to them. Still, understanding what ordinary people said to one another in private letters is impossible without also taking into account the efforts of elites to inculcate certain ideologies in them. To do so, this book also examines battle orders, pamphlets, army magazines, and radio broadcasts used to mobilize young men and women, and to educate and indoctrinate them in their respective armies. Reading indoctrination materials alongside soldiers' letters reveals important and enduring fissures in the ideological edifices of Middle East nationalisms even at the moment when, by most accounts, these conceptions of nationalism crystallized. It also shows normal, everyday people's fear, bravery, failure, arrogance, cruelty, lies, and exaggerations, which are so often excluded from history"--

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Jewish soldiers --- Muslim soldiers --- Nationalism --- Social aspects --- Correspondence --- Correspondence --- History --- Israel. --- Arab Liberation Army --- Records and correspondence. --- Records and correspondence.

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The Holocaust and the Nakba are foundational traumas in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies and form key parts of each respective collective identity. This book offers a parallel analysis of the transmission of these foundational pasts in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies by exploring how the Holocaust and the Nakba have been narrated since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords. The work exposes the existence and perpetuation of ethnocentric victimhood narratives that serve as the theoretical foundations for an ensuing minimization - or even denial - of the other's past. Three established realms of societal memory transmission provide the analytical framework for this study: official state education, commemorative acts, and mass mediation. Through this analysis, the work demonstrates the interrelated nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the contextualization of the primary historical events, while also highlighting the universal malleability of mnemonic practices.

Jewish-Arab relations. --- Group identity --- Collective memory --- Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Arab-Israeli conflict --- Historiography. --- Israel --- Ethnic relations. --- Israel-Arab conflicts --- Israel-Palestine conflict --- Israeli-Arab conflict --- Israeli-Palestinian conflict --- Jewish-Arab relations --- Palestine-Israel conflict --- Palestine problem (1948- ) --- Palestinian-Israeli conflict --- Palestinian Arabs --- Arab-Israel War, 1948-1949 --- Jewish-Arab War, 1948-1949 --- Palestine War, 1948-1949 --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- National characteristics --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Arab-Jewish relations --- Palestine problem (To 1948) --- Jews --- History