1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462681003321

Autore

Allan Diana

Titolo

Refugees of the Revolution [[electronic resource] ] : Experiences of Palestinian Exile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8895-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I

Disciplina

305.892

305.892/7405692

305.8927405692

Soggetti

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees -- Lebanon

Palestinian Arabs -- Lebanon -- Social conditions

Refugee camps -- Lebanon

Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Lebanon -- Social conditions

Sha ̄ti ̄la ̄ (Refugee camp)

Refugees, Palestinian Arab - Social conditions - Lebanon

Palestinian Arabs - Social conditions - Lebanon

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 - Refugees - Lebanon

Refugee camps - Lebanon

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Social Welfare & Social Work - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translations; Introduction; 1. Commemorative Economies; 2. Economic Subjectivity and Everyday Solidarities; 3. Stealing Power; 4. Dream Talk, Futurity, and Hope; 5. Futures Elsewhere; 6. Many Returns; Conclusion: The Roots of Exile; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled



from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their ""right of return."" Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with ""the catastrophe"" of 1948 and their camps-inhabited now for four generations-as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tr

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996248104003316

Autore

Schwarz Jan <1954->

Titolo

Imagining Lives [[electronic resource] ] : Autobiographical Fiction of Yiddish Writers / / Jan Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wisc., : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-26984-4

9786612269844

0-299-20963-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 241 p. )

Disciplina

839/.13009

Soggetti

Authors, Yiddish

Yiddish literature - History and criticism

Autobiographical fiction, Yiddish - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-229) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The classical trio. Setting the stage -- A whistle of defiance -- 2. In America. The trials of a Yiddish writer -- An American Yiddish poet visits Poland, 1934 -- 3. After the Holocaust. Of a world that is no more.