Papers from two meetings at Asch Center, University of Pennsylvania, October 2002, and at both Asch Center and Villanova University, June 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-342) and index.
Contents:
The failure of Oslo and the abiding question of the refugees / Ian S. Lustick and Ann M. Lesch -- Commemorating contested lands / Laleh Khalili -- The right of return versus the law of return: contrasting historical narratives in Israeli and Palestinian school textbooks / Elie Podeh -- Social capital and refugee repatriation: a study of economic and social transnational kinship networks in Palestine/Israel / Sari Hanafi -- Considerations toward accepting historical responsibility / Elazar Barkan -- Negotiating truth: The Holocaust, Lehavdil, and al-Nakba / Ian S. Lustick -- The Palestinian IDPs in Israel and the predicament of return: between imagining the impossible and enabling the imaginative / Amal Jamal -- No refuge for refugees: the insecure exile of Palestinians in Kuwait / Ann M. Lesch -- The vision of return: reflections on the mass immigration to Israel from the former Soviet Union / Ze'ev Khanin -- Palestinian and Mizrahi Jewish property claims in discourse and diplomacy / Michael R. Fischbach -- Arab Jews, population exchange, and the Palestinian right of return / Yehouda Shenhav -- Palestinian refugee property claims: compensation and restitution / Salim Tamari -- Truth and reconciliation: the right of return in the context of past injustice / Nadim N. Rouhana -- The visible and invisible in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Ilan PappeĢ -- Reflections on the right of return: divisible or indivisible? / Gershon Shafir.
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