Twilight nationalism : politics of existence at life's end / Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monterescu, Daniel, author.

Hazan, Haim, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs.

Jews.

Older people.

Nationalism.

Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--Biography.

Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel).

Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--Ethnic relations.

Israel--Tel Aviv.

Israel--Tel Aviv--Jaffa.

Nationalism--Israel--Tel Aviv.

Older people--Israel--Tel Aviv--Biography.

Jews--Israel--Tel Aviv--Biography.

Palestinian Arabs--Israel--Tel Aviv--Biography.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xii, 270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"The city of Jaffa presents a paradox: intimate neighbors who are political foes. The official Jewish national tale proceeds from exile to redemption and nation-building, while the Palestinians' is one of a golden age cut short, followed by dispossession and resistance. The experiences of Jaffa's Jewish and Arab residents, however, reveal lives and nationalist sentiments far more complex. Twilight Nationalism shares the stories of ten of the city's elders-women and men, rich and poor, Muslims, Jews, and Christians-to radically deconstruct these national myths and challenge common understandings of belonging and alienation. Through the stories told at life's end, Daniel Monterescu and Haim Hazan illuminate how national affiliation ultimately gives way to existential circumstances. Similarities in lives prove to be shaped far more by socioeconomic class, age, and gender than national allegiance, and intersections between stories usher in a politics of existence in place of politics of identity. In offering the real stories individuals tell about themselves, this book reveals shared perspectives too long silenced and new understandings of local community previously lost in nationalist narratives"--back cover.

Contents:

Besieged nationalism : Fakhri Jday and the decline of the elites

Worn-out nationalism : Rabbi Avraham Bachar and the community's betrayal

Surviving nationalism : Ismail abu-Shehade and testimony amid the ruins

Circumventing nationalism : the Hakim sisters and the cosmopolitan experience

Domesticated nationalism : Nazihah Asis, a prisoner of Zion

Dissolved nationalism : Subhiya abu-Ramadan and the critique of the patriarchal order

Overlooking nationalism : Talia Seckbach-Monterescu in and out of place

Suspended nationalism : Moshe (Mussa) Hermosa and Jewish-Arab masculinity

Masking nationalism : Amram Ben-Yosef on a tightrope

Speechless nationalism : Abu-George on the edge.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Monterescu, Daniel. Twilight nationalism.

ISBN:

9781503604322

1503604322

9781503605633

1503605639

OCLC:

1019836901