Umfang:
Online-Ressource (473 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520262539
Inhalt:
Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region. With contributions from a leading cast of scholars across disciplines, the stories here are drawn from a variety of sources, from stories passed down through generations to family archives, interviews, and published memoirs. As these personal narratives are transformed into social biographies, they e
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History; Part One: Voices of the Ottoman Past: From the Mountains to the Sea; 1. "Left Naked on the Beach": The Villagers of Aylut in the Grip of the New Templers; 2. The Sephardi Entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak; 3. A Musician's Lot: Wasif Jawhariyyeh's Old Jerusalem; 4. Revolutionary Pioneer: Manya Shochat and Her Commune; Part Two: From Empire to Empire: Palestine under British Rule
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5. Hero or Antihero? S. Yizhar's Ambivalent Zionism and the First Sabra Generation6. "A Son of the Country": Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, Modernist Physician and Palestinian Ethnographer; 7. The Ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a Female Construction Worker; 8. "A Nation in a Hero": Abdul Rahim Hajj Mohammad and the Arab Revolt; 9. Hillel Kook: Revisionism and Rescue; Part Three: A State Is Born A Nation is Dispersed; 10. Matar 'Abdelrahim: From a Palestinian Village to a Syrian Refugee Camp; 11. Joseph Spronz: From the Holocaust to a Safe Shore; 12. The Trees Die Standing: A Story of a Palestinian Refugee
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13. The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Would-Be Leader of Moroccan Immigrants14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv; 15. Is Slavery Over?: Black and White Arab Bedouin Women in the Naqab (Negev); Part Four: A Land Occupied and Liberated; 16. Of Possessions and Dispossessions: A Story of Palestinian Property in Jewish Israeli Lives; 17. The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Speaking Journalist in Israel; 18. The Village against the Settlement: Two Generations of Conflict in the Nablus Region; 19. Majed al-Masri in Two Intifadas in Nablus; Part Five: An Impossible Peace, a Shared Future?
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20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon21. From Religion to Revenge: Becoming a Hamas Suicide Bomber; 22. Yigael Amir: The Making of a Political Assassin; 23. Mais in the War of the Words; 24. Jonathan Pollak: An Anarchist "Traitor" in His Own Society; 25. Abu Ahmad and His Handalas; List of Contributors; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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ISBN 9780520953901
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ISBN 9780520262522
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
