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Oral History Review 2008 35(1):68-80; doi:10.1093/ohr/ohn001
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Oral History Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, Please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Oral History and al-Nakbah1

Sherna Berger Gluck

CATASTROPHE REMEMBERED: PALESTINE, ISRAEL AND THE INTERNAL REFUGEES. By Nur Masalha. London and New York: Zed Books, 2005. 300 pp. Softbound, $27.50.

NAKBA: PALESTINE, 1948, AND THE CLAIMS OF MEMORY. By Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 356 pp. Softbound, $27.50.

VOICES: PALESTINIAN WOMEN NARRATE DISPLACEMENT. Recording and text by Rosemary Sayigh, Web site creation by Borre Ludvigsen. Halden, Norway: Al-Mashriq, 2005/2007. http://almashriq.hiof.no/palestine/300/301/voices/index.html

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Moderating a meeting between Israeli and Palestinian historians in Paris in 1998, [Edward] Said explained in few sentences, and in a very patient voice, to the attentive public at large, and to the less attentive Israeli historians in particular, what a "historical document" was ... he pointed us to the vitality and significance of oral history in the reconstruction of the past. The most horrific aspects of the Nakbah—the dozens of massacres that accompanied the ethnic cleansing—as well as a detailed description of what expulsion had been from the expelled's point of view, can only be built when such a historiographical position is adopted.2

In the past twenty years, since Palestinian scholar Edward Said extolled the virtues of oral history, it has been moved from the margins to the center of Palestinian historiography. Projects have abounded in historic Palestine (both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories [OPT]), in refugee . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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