Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Dedication 5
3. Acknowledgements
4. Contents 9
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1 Institutional Erasures and Manipulations 19
7. Chapter 2 The Role of Academic Institutions in Erasing Irksome Memories 40
8. Chapter 3 Techniques for Obliterating Problematic Subjects 61
9. Chapter 4 Forgetting, Obliterating, and Inventing Alternative Narratives 90
10. Chapter 5 Memory and Forgetting at the Heart of the Zionist Idea 107
11. Chapter 6 Micro-Forgetting 119
12. Chapter 7 Macro-forgetting 135
13. Chapter 8 Deletions under the Auspices of the State 173
14. Chapter 9 Deletions during the War of Independence and the first decade after the establishment of the state 189
15. Concluding Chapter 271
16. Bibliography
17. Index