This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 palestinian elections. This book analyzes the evolution and cultivation of modern palestinian collective memory and its role in shaping palestinian national identity from its inception in the 1920s to the 2006 . Palestinian collective memory and national identity litvak m on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers palestinian collective memory and national identity. Palestinian identity in light of the literature on nationalism as the study of nationalism has developed considerably in recent years it raises the question of the extent to which the various theoretical approaches ranging from the primordialist perennialist to the radical modernist advance our understanding of the birth and evolution of palestinian national identity and of the role collective memory played in its development17 as in most cases in the world palestinian nationalists too