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Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948

by Noga Kadman - £21.99  Indiana University Press (2015)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780253016768 | ISBN 10: 0253016762

Hundreds of Palestinian villages were left empty across Israel when their residents became refugees after the 1948 war, their lands and property confiscated. Most of the villages were razed by the new State of Israel, but in dozens of others, communities of Jews were settled — many refugees in their own right. The state embarked on a systematic effort of renaming and remaking the landscape, and the Arab presence was all but erased from official maps and histories. Israelis are familiar with the ruins, terraces, and orchards that mark these sites today — almost half are located within tourist areas or national parks — but public descriptions rarely acknowledge that Arab communities existed there within living memory or describe how they came to be depopulated.
 
Using official archives, kibbutz publications, and visits to the former village sites, Noga Kadman has reconstructed this history of erasure for all 418 depopulated villages.

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