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This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern Palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping Palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 Palestinian elections.

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Introduction; M.Litvak The Evolution of a Founding Myth: The Nakba and Its Fluctuating Meaning; E.Webman The Memory that Never Dies: The Nakba Memory and the Palestinian National Movement; M.Milstein Memory ´From Below´: Palestinian Society and the Nakba Memory; M.Milstein Constructing a National Past: The Palestinian Case; M.Litvak Historical Discourse in the Palestinian Media of the Palestinian National Authority; S.Birnbaum Palestinian Women and Collective Memory; H.Brand A Dream of Severance: Crisis of Identity in Palestinian Fiction in Israel; M.Ghanayim

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MEIR LITVAK is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

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