Pre-state photographic archives and the Zionist movement / Rotem Rozental.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rozental, Rotem, author.

Series:

Routledge history of photography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism--History--20th century.

Zionism.

Zionism--History--Photograph collections.

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

Jews.

Jews--Colonization--Palestine--Societies, etc--Photograph collections.

Land settlement--Palestine--Photograph collections.

Land settlement.

Photography museums--Israel--Photograph collections.

Photography museums.

Photograph collections.

Jewish National Fund--Photograph collections.

Jewish National Fund.

Palestine--History--1917-1948--Photograph collections.

Palestine.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 249 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business, 2023.

Summary:

"By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date. This study argues that the Zionist movement makes particular use of the machinery of the photographic archive, aiming to constitute the boundaries of Palestine as a Jewish state, claiming ownership over the land and announcing internationally the success of its enterprise, thus substantiating the image it sought to embed as the "reality" of the land. This archive was not stand-alone, as it was functioning in relation to a vast, complicated network of organizational systems and technologies, in the Middle East and across the world. Crucially, this system functioned as a national archive in future tense, for a nation-state that was not yet in existence, seeking to substantiate its regional authority and shape its cultural repository, outlining parameters for inclusion and exclusion from its civic space. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, photography history, visual culture, Jewish studies, Israel studies, and Middle East studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Guards and the Archons

In and Out of the East: Travelers, Believers and Contested Truths

Local Migration and the Jewish Settlement: Zionist Orientalism and Visual Economies

Property of the People: Diasporic Bodies, Race and Land in Early Zionist Culture

Finding Your Type: Inserting Body and Land into the JNF Photographic Archive

Displaced and Absent Bodies: Marginalization and Exclusion in the PreState Archive

Air Control : Hidden Photographic Archives and Colonial Regimes in the Middle East

A Voice from the Greek Diaspora : Haim Shmuel Mizrahi and Inscriptions of a Desired Land

Even People Were Hard to Find!: Picture Postcards and the Photographic Industry in Palestine, 1920s and Beyond

Between New York and Jerusalem: Archives of Diaspora

The 1948 War and Beyond: the Rise of the National Archive.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rozental, Rotem. Pre-state photographic archives and the Zionist movement

ISBN:

9781032182384

1032182385

9781032187716

1032187719

OCLC:

1346615494

Publisher Number:

99993568175