Struggle and survival in Palestine/Israel / edited by Mark LeVine and Gershon Shafir.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LeVine, Mark Andrew, 1966-

Shafir, Gershon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Palestine--History.

Cities and towns.

Jews--Palestine--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Palestine--History--20th century.

Palestinian Arabs--History--19th century.

Palestinian Arabs.

Palestinian Arabs--History--20th century.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Influence.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Palestine--History--1799-1917.

Palestine.

Palestine--History--1917-1948.

Palestine--Social conditions--19th century.

Palestine--Economic conditions--19th century.

Palestine--Social conditions--20th century.

Palestine--Economic conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 explore how the protagonists were embedded in but also empowered by their social and historical contexts. This wide-ranging and accessible volume brings a human dimension to a conflict-ridden history, emphasizing human agency, introducing marginal voices alongside more well-known ones, defying "typical" definitions of Israelis and Palestinians, and, ultimately, redefining how we understand both "struggle" and "survival" in a troubled region.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History

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

5. Hero or Antihero? S. Yizhar's Ambivalent Zionism and the First Sabra Generation

6. "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

10. Matar Ἁbdelrahim: 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

13. The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Would-Be Leader of Moroccan Immigrants

14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv

15. Is Slavery Over? Black and White Arab Bedouin Women in the Naqab (Negev)

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

20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon

21. 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613883971

9781283571524

1283571528

9780520953901

0520953908

OCLC:

808771986