Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel / / Mark LeVine, Gershon Shafir

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822468603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• ISBN: 1-283-57152-8; 9786613883971; 0-520-95390-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (473 p.)
• Disciplina: 956.94
• Soggetti: Cities and towns - History - 19th century - Palestine; Jews - History - 20th century - Palestine; Jews - History - 19th century - Palestine; Palestinian Arabs - History - 20th Century; Palestinian Arabs - History; Arab-Israeli conflict - Influence
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History -- 1. "Left Naked on the Beach": The Villagers of Aylut in the Grip of the New Templers -- 2. The Sephardi Entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak -- 3. A Musician's Lot: Wasif Jawhariyyeh's Old Jerusalem -- 4. Revolutionary Pioneer: Manya Shochat and Her Commune -- 5. Hero or Antihero? S. Yizhar's Ambivalent Zionism and the First Sabra Generation -- 6. "A Son of the Country": Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, Modernist Physician and Palestinian Ethnographer -- 7. The Ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a Female Construction Worker -- 8. "A Nation in a Hero": Abdul Rahim Hajj Mohammad and the Arab Revolt -- 9. Hillel Kook: Revisionism and Rescue -- 10. Matar Ἁbdelrahim: From a Palestinian Village to a Syrian Refugee Camp -- 11. Joseph Spronz: From the Holocaust to a Safe Shore -- 12. The Trees Die Standing: A Story of a Palestinian Refugee -- 13. The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Would-Be Leader of ; Moroccan Immigrants -- 14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv -- 15. Is Slavery Over? Black and White Arab Bedouin Women in the Naqab (Negev) -- 16. Of Possessions and Dispossessions: A Story of Palestinian Property in Jewish Israeli Lives -- 17. The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Speaking Journalist in Israel -- 18. The Village against the Settlement: Two Generations of Conflict in the Nablus Region -- 19. Majed al-Masri in Two Intifadas in Nablus -- 20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon -- 21. From Religion to Revenge: Becoming a Hamas Suicide Bomber -- 22. Yigael Amir: The Making of a Political Assassin -- 23. Mais in the War of the Words -- 24. Jonathan Pollak: An Anarchist "Traitor" in His Own Society -- 25. Abu Ahmad and His Handalas -- List of Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.