Book by Meron Benvenisti documents how the landscape of Israel/Palestine was physically and symbolically remade after 1948, tracing the renaming of Arab places, the demolition of villages, the planting of forests over ruins, and the creation of a Hebrew geography atop the Arabic geography of Palestine. Benvenisti, a former deputy mayor of Jerusalem, writes from an Israeli perspective acknowledging the systematic erasure of Palestinian place names and memory from the land. Valuable for historians, geographers, and researchers studying the physical and symbolic transformation of the Palestinian landscape after 1948, including the erasure of Arabic place names, the demolition of villages, and Israeli geographic renaming.
