Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced

by Rochelle Davis

Book Overview

Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their lost past into local histories in the form of "village...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804773130
• ISBN13: 9780804773133
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.8"