- Summary
- This book is a collection of narratives collects from family archives, interviews, and published memoirs. They tell the stories of everyday people living a conflict-ridden world, emphasizing individual interaction, introducing marginal voices alongside more renowned ones, defying "typical" definition of Israelis and Palestinians.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
©2012
- Locale
- Palestine
Middle East
Palästina
Israel
- Contents
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Foreword / Edmund Burke III
Introduction: Social biographies in making sense of history / Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine
pt. 1. Voices of the Ottoman past : from the mountains to the sea. "Left naked on the beach" : the villagers of Aylut in the grip of the New Templers / Mahmoud Yazbak ; The Sephardi entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak / Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark ; A musician's lot : Wasif Jawhariyyeh's Old Jerusalem / Salim Tamari ; Revolutionary pioneer : Manya Shochat and her commune / Gershon Shafir
pt. 2. From empire to empire : Palestine under British rule. Hero or antihero? S. Yizhar's ambivalent Zionism and the first sabra generation / Nitsa Ben-Ari ; "A son of the country" : Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, modernist physician and Palestinian ethnographer / Philippe Bourmaud ; The ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a female construction worker / David De Vries and Talia Pfeffermann ; "A nation in a hero" : Abdul Rahim Hajj Mohammad and the Arab Revolt / Sonia Nimr ; Hillel Kook : revisionism and rescue / Rebecca Kook
pt. 3. A state is born : a nation is dispersed. Matar ʻAbdelrahim : from a Palestinian village to a Syrian refugee camp / Rochelle Davis ; Joseph Spronz : from the Holocaust to a safe shore / Gershon Shafir ; The trees die standing : a story of a Palestinian refugee / Ramzy Baroud ; The brief career of Prosper Cohen : a would-be leader of Moroccan immigrants / Yaron Tsur ; A tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv / Aziza Khazzoom ; Is slavery over? Black and white Arab Bedouin women in the Naqab (Negev) / Safa Abu-Rabia
pt. 4. A land occupied and liberated. Of possessions and dispossessions : a story of Palestinian property in Jewish Israeli lives / Rebecca L. Stein ; The rise and fall of the Russian-speaking journalist in Israel / Nelly Elias and Julia Lerner ; The village against the settlement : two generations of conflict in the Nablus region / Moriel Ram and Mark LeVine ; Majed al-Masri in two intifadas in Nablus / Lætitia Bucaille
pt. 5. An impossible peace, a shared future? Benni Gaon : from socialist to capitalist tycoon / Michal Frenkel ; From religion to revenge : becoming a Hamas suicide bomber / Bader Araj ; Yigael Amir : the making of a political assassin / Michael Feige ; Mais in the war of the words / Erin F. Olsen ; Jonathan Pollak : an anarchist "traitor" in his own society / Neve Gordon ; Abu Ahmad and his Handalas / Ala Alazzeh.
- Other Authors/Editors
- LeVine, Mark, 1966-
Shafir, Gershon.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Edmund Burke III -- Introduction: Social biographies in making sense of history / Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine -- pt. 1. Voices of the Ottoman past : from the mountains to the sea. "Left naked on the beach" : the villagers of Aylut in the grip of the New Templers / Mahmoud Yazbak ; The Sephardi entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak / Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark ; A musician's lot : Wasif Jawhariyyeh's Old Jerusalem / Salim Tamari ; Revolutionary pioneer : Manya Shochat and her commune / Gershon Shafir -- pt. 2. From empire to empire : Palestine under British rule. Hero or antihero? S. Yizhar's ambivalent Zionism and the first sabra generation / Nitsa Ben-Ari ; "A son of the country" : Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, modernist physician and Palestinian ethnographer / Philippe Bourmaud ; The ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a female construction worker / David De Vries and Talia Pfeffermann ; "A nation in a hero" : Abdul Rahim Hajj Mohammad and the Arab Revolt / Sonia Nimr ; Hillel Kook : revisionism and rescue / Rebecca Kook -- pt. 3. A state is born : a nation is dispersed. Matar ʻAbdelrahim : from a Palestinian village to a Syrian refugee camp / Rochelle Davis ; Joseph Spronz : from the Holocaust to a safe shore / Gershon Shafir ; The trees die standing : a story of a Palestinian refugee / Ramzy Baroud ; The brief career of Prosper Cohen : a would-be leader of Moroccan immigrants / Yaron Tsur ; A tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv / Aziza Khazzoom ; Is slavery over? Black and white Arab Bedouin women in the Naqab (Negev) / Safa Abu-Rabia -- pt. 4. A land occupied and liberated. Of possessions and dispossessions : a story of Palestinian property in Jewish Israeli lives / Rebecca L. Stein ; The rise and fall of the Russian-speaking journalist in Israel / Nelly Elias and Julia Lerner ; The village against the settlement : two generations of conflict in the Nablus region / Moriel Ram and Mark LeVine ; Majed al-Masri in two intifadas in Nablus / Lætitia Bucaille -- pt. 5. An impossible peace, a shared future? Benni Gaon : from socialist to capitalist tycoon / Michal Frenkel ; From religion to revenge : becoming a Hamas suicide bomber / Bader Araj ; Yigael Amir : the making of a political assassin / Michael Feige ; Mais in the war of the words / Erin F. Olsen ; Jonathan Pollak : an anarchist "traitor" in his own society / Neve Gordon ; Abu Ahmad and his Handalas / Ala Alazzeh.
