Sacred Landscape – Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
Autor Meron Benvenistien Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 feb 2002
Benvenisti first 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 (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). 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.
Benvenisti points out that five hundred years after the Moors left Spain there are sufficient landmarks remaining to preserve the outlines of Muslim Spain. Even with sustained modern development, the ancient scale is still visible. Yet a Palestinian returning to his ancestral landscape after only fifty years would have difficulty identifying his home. Furthermore, Benvenisti says, the transformation of Arab cultural assets into Jewish holy sites has engendered a struggle over the "signposts of memory" essential to both peoples.
Sacred Landscape raises troublesome questions that most writers on the Middle East avoid. The now-buried Palestinian landscape remains a symbol and a battle standard for Palestinians and Israelis. But it is Benvenisti's continuing belief that Eretz Israel/Palestine has enough historical and physical space for the people of both nations and that it can one day be a shared homeland.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780520234222
ISBN-10: 0520234227
Pagini: 382
Ilustrații: 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 168 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of California Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0520234227
Pagini: 382
Ilustrații: 23 b/w photographs, 2 maps
Dimensiuni: 168 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: University of California Press
Locul publicării:United States
Descriere
Explains how an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state. This book discusses the process by which Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs).