A Confiscated Memory: Wadi Salib and Haifa's Lost Heritage
ISBN: 9780231526265
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Middle Eastern History;

Yfaat Weiss tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. Weiss investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib's Arab heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. Through her sensitive reading of events, she offers uncommon perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli belonging.


Yfaat Weiss is professor in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and head of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of various studies on German and Central European history, as well as on Jewish and Israeli history. Together with Daniel Levy, she is coeditor of Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration .
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