Sacred Landscape

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The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948

By Meron Benvenisti

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Sacred Landscape by Meron Benvenisti explores the intricate historical and cultural tapestry of the land of Israel/Palestine. The book delves into the transformations and reverberating outcomes of the 1948 conflict, portraying how personal and collective memories intertwine with the land's evolving physical and political landscape. Through a blend of personal anecdotes and meticulous historical analysis, it examines the coexistence and conflict between Arabs and Jews, reflecting on the profound impact of geopolitical changes on the area's social fabric.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in the historical and cultural transformations in the land of Israel and Palestine. It provides a detailed exploration of how landscapes shaped and were shaped by the various peoples and events throughout history. The author offers a unique perspective by intertwining personal narratives with wider historical analysis.

Sacred Landscape

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).

Honourable mention for the Albert Hourani Award, Middle Eastern Studies Association.

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As a young man, Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti travelled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti's youth are central to this book, and the story that he tells helps explain how, during the 20th century, an Arab landscape, both physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state.

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 in Sacred Landscape.

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iSacred Landscape/i by Meron Benvenisti is praised for its moral courage and scholarly restoration of historical narratives. Reviews highlight its exploration of both Israeli efforts to erase Palestinian history and the Palestinians' unrealistic longing for the past. Distinguished by its intelligence and emotional depth, the book is recognised as a significant contribution to understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict, offering fresh perspectives rather than reiterating entrenched views.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520234222

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 February 2002

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 23 b-w photographs, 2 maps

Contributors:

Translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 544g

Pages: 376

Collections

Education & Reference History & Military Meron Benvenisti Middle Eastern History Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

Meron Benvenisti was deputy mayor of Jerusalem from 1971 to 1978, and is currently a columnist for Haaretz, Israel's largest newspaper. He is the author of Conflicts and Contradictions (1986) Intimate Enemies (California, 1995), and City of Stone (California, 1996).