{"product_id":"a-confiscated-memory-9780231152266","title":"A Confiscated Memory","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis beautifully written book tells the story of refugees and immigrants who lived during the twentieth century in a single neighborhood in Haifa (Wadi Salib), enduring victimization as a result of war and long ethnic, national, and social discrimination and transformation. Yfaat Weiss focuses on a pre-1948 Palestinian neighborhood in a predominantly Jewish City, laying out the way the displacement of Palestinians gave way to Jewish migrants, who were themselves refugees enduring social discrimination in Israel and were evicted as a result of Israel's most famous social upheaval (1959), a watershed moment in Israeli ethnic relations between Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jews. This captivating history of a mosaic of exclusion and inclusion of national and immigrant minorities-in addition to its other merits, it is an outstanding urban study--reveals the parallel and separate experiences of repeated displacement. This community of 'diachronic neighbors' illuminates the memory of a place and a sequence of displacements. Weiss brings to life and revives the memory of disappeared cultures displaced by war and the drive to modernization. -- Elazar Barkan, professor of international and public affairs and director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University, and coauthor of No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation [T]his study adds to the broader discourse on identity and conflict in Israel. Choice [An] important contribution to the growing literature on collective memory and forgetting. -- Michael Feige, Ben-Gurion University American Historical Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface Acknowledgments Prologue: The Neighbors Who Get Rich on Our Account 1. War: Diachronic Neighbors 2. Commotion: \"And I Wanted to Do Something Nice, Like They Have Up in Haddar\" 3. Evacuation: City Lights 4. Khirbeh: Altneuland Epilogue: Iphrat Goshen and His Wife Miriam Move Into Said's House in Hallisa Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400249614679,"sku":"9780231152266","price":54.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231152266.jpg?v=1730470185","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-confiscated-memory-9780231152266","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}