Sacred landscape : the buried history of the Holy Land since 1948 /


Meron Benvenisti ; translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta.
Bok Engelsk 2000 · Electronic books
Utgitt
Berkeley : : University of California Press, , 2000.
Omfang
1 online resource (x, 366 p. ) : ill., maps ;
Opplysninger
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - "As a Young Man, Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. Benvenisti's youthful experiences are central to this book, and his story helps explain how an Arab landscape, both physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state." "Benvenisti discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine. He then explains how the Arab landscape has been transformed through war, destruction, and expulsion into a flourishing Jewish homeland accommodating millions of immigrants. The resulting encounters between two peoples who claim the same land have raised great moral and political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor and impartiality."--Jacket.
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0520211545

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