CONTESTED LAND, CONTESTED MEMORY: ISRAEL’S JEWS AND ARABS AND THE GHOSTS OF CATASTROPHE
Book ID/图书代码： 00110912B58922
English Summary/英文概要： CONTESTED LAND, CONTESTED MEMORY: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe by Jo Roberts Contested Land, Contested Memory opens in Palestine, in 1948: as the British colonial mandate ends, Jewish and Arab Palestinians are caught up in an increasingly brutal war. While Jewish refugees, survivors of the Holocaust, struggle towards Palestine, Arab refugees are leaving, many under duress. Out of the chaos and violence, a new Jewish state is born.Sixty years later, while Jewish Israelis commemorate that conflict as a War of Independence, Palestinians remember it as the Nakba (in Arabic) and Shoah (in Hebrew) mean the same thing: Catastrophe. For Palestinians and for Israelis, the remembered history of a traumatic past has shaped their collective understanding of who they are as a people. Two entirely separate collective memories grow out of the landscape; on visible, one hidden. Only by understanding this complex meshing of land and traumatic national memory is it possible to grasp the persistence of the conflict.
This book combines accessibility with intellectual rigour. It crosses several disciplines, including history, anthropology, geography, Middle Eastern studies, Jewish studies, and peace and conflict studies. It would appeal primarily to the intellectually curious general reader, who would like to learn more about the complex history behind the Israel/Palestinian conflict, but would be more drawn by a historical or anthropological approach than by a political (and potentially polarized) perspective.
To sum up: for the Palestinians, accepting the Jewish pain around the Holocaust means accepting the moral ground of the creation of the State of Israel. For Israeli Jews, accepting the pain of the 1948 Palestinian refugees means sharing responsibility for their plight and right of return.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 乔•罗伯茨所写的《有争议的土地，有争议的回忆：以色列的犹太人和阿拉伯人及灾难的幽灵》打开了1948年巴勒斯坦的回忆：当英国殖民地的任务结束后，犹太人和阿拉伯巴勒斯坦人都陷入了一个越来越残酷的战争。大屠杀的犹太难民幸存者和巴勒斯坦的阿拉伯难民斗争，最终在胁迫下离开。在混乱和暴力外，一个新的犹太国家诞生了。
六十年后，当以色列犹太人把那场冲突纪念为独立战争时，巴勒斯坦人仍将它作为浩劫（阿拉伯文）和大屠杀（希伯来文），意思是一样的：灾难。对于巴勒斯坦人和以色列人，过去创伤的历史记忆塑造了他们作为人是谁的共同理解。两个完全独立的集体记忆滋生出来的景观；一个可见，一个隐藏。只有了解了土地这一复杂的网格和创伤民族的记忆才有可能理解冲突的持久性。
本书结合了严谨的知识。它跨越多个学科，包括历史学，人类学，地理学，中东研究，犹太研究，和平与冲突研究。 它将吸引求知好学的读者，他们想要了解更多关于以色列/巴勒斯坦冲突背后的复杂历史，但将更多的由历史或人类学的方法来描述而不是从政治（和潜在的极化）的角度。
综上所述：对于巴勒斯坦人来说，接受遭受大屠杀的犹太人的痛苦意味着接受创建以色列国的道德理由。对于以色列的犹太人来说， 接受1948年的巴勒斯坦难民的痛苦意味着分担他们的苦难并返还权利。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：《有争议的土地》获得了双方的一致好评。它是美国国家犹太图书奖决赛书籍之一，并获得了”电子起义“的赞誉。
下面是全国犹太图书奖网站的链接（向下滚动到“历史”部分）：
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/2013-national-jewish-book-award-winners
这里是电子起义点评的链接：
http://electronicintifada.net/content/new-book-palestinians-israeli-jews-reflect-history-ethnic-cleansing/13075
CONTESTED LAND has the rare distinction of being hailed by both sides. It was one of two finalists in the American national Jewish book awards and received a superb review from the Electronic Intifada.
Here’s the link to National Jewish Book Award website (scroll down to the "History" section):
http://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/awards/2013-national-jewish-book-award-winners
And here’s the link to the Electronic Intifada review:
http://electronicintifada.net/content/new-book-palestinians-israeli-jews-reflect-history-ethnic-cleansing/13075
About the Author/作者介绍： 乔•罗伯茨曾受训成为一名律师和人类学家，现在是一名自由撰稿人。她担任了五年的纽约的”天主教工人“的主编，并经常在上面发表文章。她关于以色列和约旦河西岸的报告文学已经刊登在大使馆的加拿大的外交政策周刊上。她住在加拿大多伦多。Trained as a lawyer and anthropologist, Jo Roberts is now a freelance writer. For five years she was managing editor of the Catholic Worker in New York and has frequently contributed articles to it. Her reportage from Israel and from the West Bank has appeared in Embassy, Canada’s foreign policy weekly. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
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