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Jerusalem is a place where memory, colonizing power, and historical invention have interacted in myriad ways through successive waves of foreign domination. As the primary site of contest and confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis since 1948, Jerusalem has become an urban center where an intense conflict between competing national imaginations rages. The politics of monuments in Jerusalem is part and parcel of the construction of history and has served a vital role in producing the past in a contested land.
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Gabriel Baramki, interview with the author, July 27, 1997.
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Boston. Beacon Press, 1995).
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Abowd, T. (2006). Present and Absent. In: Misselwitz, P., Rieniets, T., Efrat, Z., Khamaisi, R., Nasrallah, R. (eds) City of Collision. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-7643-7868-9_27
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