Entangled Histories in Palestine/Israel

This edited volume offers a new critical approach to the study of Zionist history and Israeli-Palestinian relations, based on the encounter between history and anthropology.

Autorentext

Dafna Hirsch is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication, The Open University of Israel. She has published many articles and is the author of the book "We Are Here to Bring the West": Hygiene Education and Culture Building in the Jewish Society of Mandate Palestine (2014, Hebrew). Her work focuses on food consumption, the body, and gender in Zionist history.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Entangled Histories through a Magnifying Glass Section I: Jews and Arabs Pre-1948 2. The Violent Struggle over Land: The Beginning of the Zionist Armed Settlement Strategy, 1908-1914 3. "The Same Sea": Jews and Palestinians on the Beach in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods Section II: Practices and Memories of Displacement 4. Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948 5. Coping with the Present Past: Personal Recollection among Palestinian Internally Displaced Persons Section III: Facing the Settler State 6. Accumulation and Surveillance: The Military Rule in Lydda, July 1948-July 1949 7. The First Act in the Struggle of the Ma barot, 1951-1952: Contestation amid Subjection 8. When "Human Material" Says No: Noncompliance, Resistance and Protest among the Settlers of the Lakhish Project, 1954-1962 Section IV: Labor and the Formation of National and Ethnic Hierarchies 9. Reconstructing the Labor Process: The Of-Ar Factory, 1961-1979 10. The Men Who Knew Too Much: Sardines, Skills and the Labor Process in Jaffa, Israel,1948-1979 Section V: Telling/Cleansing History** 11. Palestine's Absent Cities: Gender, Memoricide, and the Silencing of Urban Palestinian Memory 12. Discourse of Separation: Taboos and Depoliticization in Haifa's Guided Tours 13. Silenced in History? Naqab Bedouin Women and their Narratives of the Past 14. Afterword