A Confiscated Memory - Wadi Salib and Haifa′s Lost Heritage

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15226-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Until the War of 1948, Wadi Salib was an impoverished Arab neighborhood in Haifa, Israel. A single day of fighting uprooted its residents. Yet Wadi Salib retained its Arab name, even after Jewish immigrants from Morocco resettled it, replacing one layer of existence with another. In 1959, Misrahi protest against continual discrimination turned the neighborhood and into an icon of ethnic strife between Israeli Jews. Nevertheless, its Arab inscription and the acts committed there lingered in its stones.Yfaat Weiss investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib's heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. At the core of her quest lies the concept of property, as she merges the constraints of former Arab ownership with requirements and restrictions pertaining to urban development and the emergence of memory. Establishing a relationship between Wadi Salib's Arab refugees and subsequent Moroccan evacuees, Weiss questions the Israeli public's eerie lack of awareness about this neighborhood's former inhabitants and the impact of this amnesia on the riots of 1959. Describing the protests in detail, Weiss traces in their complex dynamics the echoes of Wadi Salib's multilayered and hidden history. Through her sensitive reading of this contested real estate, she offers a different perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weiss, Yfaat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Neighbors Who Get Rich on Our Account1. War: Diachronic Neighbors2. Commotion: "And I Wanted to Do Something Nice, Like They Have Up in Haddar"3. Evacuation: City Lights4. Khirbeh: AltneulandEpilogue: Iphrat Goshen and His Wife Miriam Move Into Said's House in HallisaNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Yfaat Weiss is professor in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and head of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of various studies on German and Central European history, as well as on Jewish and Israeli history. Together with Daniel Levy, she is coeditor of Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration.