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i conceived the idea of writing this book after attending a lecture delivered by Dan Diner at the University of Haifa, in early 2000, in which he expounded on the connection between time, memory, and property in postcommunist Europe. He conjectured that the rights of the Palestinians would constitute a “sounding board” for the European debates, and it is to this that I owe the inspiration for this book.

My first opportunity to relate the place—Wadi Salib—to the issues of memory and property came during a lecture at a conference entitled “Memory and Restitution: On Historical Remembrance and Material Restitution in Europe,” organized by the Simon Dubnow Institute and the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaft (IFK) in 2001 in Vienna. A grant from the IFK in 2003 enabled me to devote several months to research on the topic. For this I thank the former head of the institute, Gotthard Wunberg, and Lutz Musner. From the outset, Yehouda Shenhav, editor of the series Theory and Criticism in Context at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem, showed considerable interest in the topic of the book and made it possible for me to publish it in Hebrew as part of the series. I thank him for his curiosity, friendship, and our professional discussions, which encouraged me to refine my arguments. The Hamburg Institute for Social Research enabled me to work on the manuscript over three summer breaks, placing at my disposal its excellent research facilities. For this I thank Ulrich Bielefeld and the head of the institute, Jan Philipp Reemtsma. In the context of two research groups, financed through the German-Israeli Foundation (GIF), titled Out of Place: Ethnic Migration, Nation-State Formation, and Property Regimes in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Israel (2006–2008) and Property Reallocation and Symbolic Appropriation: Ownership, Ethnicity, and Memory in Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Israel (2009–2011), I was fortunate to discuss my thesis in a comparative and multidisciplinary framework. My thanks go to the GIF and to my colleagues. Elazar Barkan enlightened me about the debate on the role of writing the history of justice and reconciliation, and his influence is apparent in the overall structure of the book.

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