Palestine in Transition

Frank Scholten's Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-6229-9
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present

Frank Scholten set out to produce an “illustrated Bible,” instead returning with captivating documentation of the modernist transformations and intimate views of Palestine from 1921 to 1923. He documented Palestine, as the British Mandate was formally being established, with a taxonomical and ethnographic eye, relating the modern world he photographed to Biblical passages to explain the complexity of social life in the “Holy Land.”

Palestine in Transition traces the significance of Frank Scholten’s documentation of the transformations occurring during the British Mandate period. By taking a geographical approach to the collection—like Scholten himself—this book revisits his incomplete project by presenting different regions through contributions by scholars specialized in each field, a century after his visit and the dramatic social, cultural, and political upheavals that the “Holy Land” has undergone since then.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanchez Summerer, Karène

Zananiri, Sary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgement

Transliteration

List of Figures

Map of places

Foreword

Karène Sanchez Summerer and Sary Zananiri, Introduction. Revisiting Palestine Illustrated

1. Salim Tamari, A Frivolous Affair: The Pilgrimage to Nebi Rubin

2. Iyad Issa, A Transformed Rural Landscape: Scholten’s Visual Representation of Coastal Palestinian Villages Destroyed in 1948

3. Rebekka Grossman, A Middle Eastern Photosphere: 1920s Tel Aviv as Space, Statement, and Idea

4. Sarah Irving, Echoes of Daher al-'Omar: Land, Labor, and Architecture in Scholten’s Galilee

5. Yair Wallach, Part of the Palestinian Landscape: Jews in Scholten’s Photographs of 1920s Palestine

6. Nadi Abu Saada, Capturing Urban Modernity: Architecture and Agriculture in Modern Jaffa

7. Marc Dugas, In the Southern Jordan Valley: The Sacred Topography and the Revival of Jericho

8. Norig Neveu, Scholten’s Transjordanian Journey: A Kaleidoscopic Perspective on a Modern Holy Land

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sanchez Summerer, Karène
Karène Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University and co-director of the Centre for Historical Studies. Her publications include Sanchez Summerer, K. and Zananiri, S., Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918–1948) (2021).

Zananiri, Sary
Sary Zananiri is an artist, cultural historian and Senior Lecturer at Monash University. His research interests sit at the intersection of nationalism, colonialism, indigeneity, religious narrative and visual culture, with a particular focus on photography.

Karène Sanchez Summerer is Professor and Chair of Middle Eastern studies at Groningen University and co-director of the Centre for Historical Studies. Her publications include (with Sary Zananiri) Imaging and Imagining Palestine- Photography, Modernity and the Biblical Lens (1918–1948) (2021).

Sary Zananiri is an artist, cultural historian and Senior Lecturer at Monash University. His research interests sit at the intersection of nationalism, colonialism, religious narrative and visual culture, with a particular focus on photography.