Title: Sacred landscape
First published: 2000
Description: "As a Young Man, Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. Benvenisti's youthful experiences are central to this book, and his story helps explain how an Arab landscape, both physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state.".

"Benvenisti discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine. He then explains how the Arab landscape has been transformed through war, destruction, and expulsion into a flourishing Jewish homeland accommodating millions of immigrants.

The resulting encounters between two peoples who claim the same land have raised great moral and political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor and impartiality."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict, Ethnic relations, Geographical Names, Historical geography, History, Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949, Palestinian Arabs, Refugees, Social aspects of Arab-Israeli conflict, Villages, Palestijnen, Social aspects, Geografische namen, Arabisch-Israëlisch conflict, Geografischer Name, Historische Geografie, Israel-Arab War (1948-1949) fast (OCoLC)fst00980263, Namensänderung, General, Nahostkonflikt, Palestine, history, Jewish-Arab relations, Guerre israélo-arabe, 1948-1949, Réfugiés, Noms géographiques, Histoire, Conflit israélo-arabe, Aspect social, Palestiniens
Places: Israel
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: DS126.954 .B46 2000