All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948
Walid Khalidi (ed.)
A monumental village-by-village record of the more than four hundred Palestinian communities depopulated in 1948 — the definitive documentary reference on the Nakba.
All That Remains is an encyclopedia of erasure. A team of field researchers under Walid Khalidi’s direction documented 418 Palestinian villages depopulated during the Nakba of 1948, recording for each its location, population, land holdings, and fate — what was destroyed, what was built over it, and what physically remains: a shrine, a schoolhouse, a row of cacti marking where a village stood.
The book’s power lies in its methodical accumulation. Refusing rhetoric, it lets the record speak: page after page of communities that existed, with names, mosques, and harvests, and then did not. It is the standard scholarly reference on the destroyed villages and a cornerstone of the Palestinian documentary memory.
About the author
Walid Khalidi, born in Jerusalem in 1925, is a historian and a co-founder of the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, long the editor of its Journal of Palestine Studies. A professor emeritus of Harvard University, he has spent a lifetime assembling the documentary record of modern Palestinian history.
Details
- Published by the Institute for Palestine Studies, Washington, D.C., 1992
- Documents 418 villages, with photographs and maps