Homeland conflict and identity for Palestinian and Jewish Israeli Americans / Julianne Weinzimmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinzimmer, Julianne Melissa, 1978-

Series:

New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

The new Americans : recent immigration and American society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Israelis--North Carolina.

Israelis.

Palestinian Arabs--North Carolina.

Palestinian Arabs.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Social aspects--North Carolina.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Ethnic conflict.

Transnationalism.

East and West.

North Carolina--Ethnic relations.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso [Tex.] : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Weinzimmer examines various ways that homeland conflict affects the diasporic identities of first and second generation Jewish Israeli Americans and Palestinian Americans. Her work builds upon central tenets of conflict theory, collective memory and transnationalism literature, and narrative methodologies. Perceptions of homeland conflict are analyzed from multiple sources: past experiences; family stories; group-level accounts; media coverage; and homeland contacts. Homeland conflict proves to be a constitutive element of identity for both generations within each group, with differences obser

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Collective Memories about the Foundations of theConflict; Chapter 2: Stories about Homeland Conflict; Chapter 3: Sources of Homeland Conflict Information; Chapter 4: Experiences in the Host Country; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Table 1; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326760

1593326769

OCLC:

818818859