Book by Susan Slyomovics examining how Arab and Jewish survivors narrate the Palestinian village of Ayn Hawd/Ein Hod, destroyed in 1948 and rebuilt as an Israeli artists' colony near Haifa. Slyomovics's study of how memory, material culture, and place are produced through competing narratives illuminates dynamics central to Palestinian urban and village experiences across the country, including in the Jerusalem region. The work draws on oral history, ethnography, and material culture analysis to read two communities' contradictory accounts of the same landscape. Recommended for researchers working on Palestinian memory studies, place-making under dispossession, and the politics of cultural heritage, as Slyomovics's method of reading competing Jewish and Palestinian narratives against each other provides a model for studying contested memory in sites connected to the broader Jerusalem social world.
