A Tale of Two Narratives

Grace Wermenbol is a Middle East-focused analyst for the US government and a non-resident scholar at the Washington-based Middle East Institute. She holds a Ph.D. from St Antony's College, University of Oxford where her research focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is the recipient of numerous academic grants and awards, including from the University of Oxford, the Council of British Research in the Levant, the University of Cambridge's Woolf Institute, and the Dutch Prins Bernhard Foundation.

• Introduction; The post-oslo period: a historical overview; Part I. The Textbook of Memory: 1.The holocaust in Israeli textbooks: death and deliverance; 2.Teaching the nakba: old wounds, new textbooks; Part II. The Landscape of Memory: 3. Recreating and reclaiming the lost homeland; 4. A past that does not pass; Part III. Scoop on the Past: 5. Never forget and never again; 6. Preserving the past, mobilizing the past; Conclusion; Bibliography; Interviews.

'There is vast literature on the Holocaust memory in Israel and there is vast literature on the memory of the Nakba among Palestinians. But there are hardly any thorough fact-based analyses of both these foundational memories together and the ways by which they shape and reshape each other. Grace Wermenbol's brilliant study does precisely that and proves that in order to understand each of these memories one actually needs to study them both and together.' Amos Goldberg, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem