LeVine / Shafir Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-520-95390-1
Verlag: University of California Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 472 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LeVine, Mark

Shafir, Gershon

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Edmund Burke III


Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History

Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine


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

Mahmoud Yazbak


2. The Sephardi Entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak

Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark


3. A Musician’s Lot: Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s Old Jerusalem

Salim Tamari


4. Revolutionary Pioneer: Manya Shochat and Her Commune

Gershon Shafir


Part Two: From Empire to Empire: Palestine under British Rule

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

Nitsa Ben-Ari


6. "A Son of the Country": Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, Modernist Physician and Palestinian Ethnographer

Philippe Bourmaud


7. The Ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a Female Construction Worker

David De Vries and Talia Pfeffermann


8. "A Nation in a Hero": Hajj Mohammad Abdul Rahim and the Arab Revolt

Sonia Nimr


9. Hillel Kook: Revisionism and Rescue

Becky Kook


Part Three: A State Is Born; A Nation Is Dispersed

10. Matar ‘Abdelrahim: From a Palestinian Village to a Syrian Refugee Camp

Rochelle Davis


11. Joseph Spronz: From the Holocaust to a Safe Shore

Gershon Shafir


12. The Trees Die Standing: A Story of a Palestinian Refugee

Ramzy Baroud


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

Yaron Tsur


14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv

Aziza Khazzoom


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

Safa Abu-Rabia


Part Four: A Land Occupied and Liberated

16. Of Possessions and Dispossessions: A Story of Palestinian Property in Jewish Israeli Lives

Rebecca L. Stein


17. The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Speaking Journalist in Israel

Nelly Elias and Julia Lerner


18. The Village against the Settlement: Two Generations of Conflict in the Nablus Region

Moriel Ram and Mark LeVine


19. Majed al-Masri in Two Intifadas in Nablus

Lætitia Bucaille


Part Five: An Impossible Peace, a Shared Future?

20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon

Michal Frenkel


21. From Religion to Revenge: Becoming a Hamas Suicide Bomber

Bader Araj


22. Yigael Amir: The Making of a Political Assassin

Michael Feige


23. Mais in the War of the Words

Erin F. Olsen


24. Jonathan Pollak: An Anarchist "Traitor" in His Own Society

Neve Gordon


25. Abu Ahmad and His Handalas

Ala Alazzeh


List of Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

LeVine, Mark
Mark LeVine is Professor of History at UC Irvine. He is the author of An Impossible Peace, Overthrowing Geography (UC Press, 2005) and Heavy Metal Islam. Gershon Shafir is Professor of Sociology at UC San Diego and Director of its Institution for International, Comparative and Area Studies. He is the author of Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, National Insecurity and Human Rights (UC Press) and Being Israeli, winner of MESA’s Hourani Award.