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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: University of California Press; 1 edition (September 12, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0520245571
  • ASIN: B005IUV87G
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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"A fascinating work. Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker succeed not only in challenging many basic assumptions and stereotypes about the victims of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also in undermining much of the public discourse on the Palestinian minority inside Israel. An outstanding work of scholarship combining social science research tools with [auto-] biographic intimacy." --Salim Tamari, Director, The Institute of Jerusalem Studies

"Coffins on Our Shoulders is a profound, worrying, and insightful excursion into the lives and times of a new generation of young Palestinians in Israel. This unusually impressive volume makes it clear how deeply a politics of difference, mounted in the name of collective entitlement, calls into question the limits of liberal democracy. "--John L. Comaroff, Professor, University of Chicago, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation

"Coffins on our Shoulders is an absorbing portrait of contemporary life in Israel. Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker give us a thoughtful, multi-vocal chronicle about Jewish majority, and Palestinian minority relations in Israel."--Susan Slyomovics, Professor of anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village

"Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker examine the making of a new generation of Palestinians in Israel who are challenging the basic ideological core of Israel as a self-defined Jewish state and redefining the asymmetrical power configuration that governs the relationship between the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority within Israel. This bifocal look, based on a very well-informed and perceptive reading of the current scene in Israel, is complemented by the personal narratives of the two authors, giving us an illuminating and rare glimpse into the juxtaposed lives of real people, across the divide."--Anton Shammas, professor of modern Middle Eastern literature, University of Michigan

"The lucid sociological analysis of recent transformations in patterns of political behavior and conceptions of self identity among Israeli Palestinians becomes an opportunity for both authors to reflect upon their own identity and personal history. The juxtaposition of their two life stories, which have thrown them so far apart yet kept them so close together, and the integration of these stories into the theoretical analysis makes this book truly moving and exceptional."--Adi Ophir, professor, The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University

About the Author

Dan Rabinowitz is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University. He is the author of Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee (1997), Anthropology and the Palestinians (1998), and The Cross Israel Highway (forthcoming). Khawla Abu-Baker is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Behavioral Science at Emek Yizrael College. She is the author of A Rocky Road: Arab Women as Political Leaders in Israel (1998) and editor of Women, Armed Conflict, and Loss: The Mental Health of Palestinian Women in the Occupied Territories (2004).

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful By Davidwmcgill on December 11, 2005
Format: Paperback
This book is an excellent, very well written description of the Palestinian experience in Israel. It is particularly remarkable in its creative collaborative narrative form, a blend of social anthropological and family therapy/ family systems perspectives. The authors effectively use the personal stories of their own families, respectively Jewish and Palestinian, especially for three generations over the last 50 years, to illustrate the impact of the sociological story. The book then is a unique weaving of social anthropology with intergenerational family dynamics. The authors conclude with suggestions for hope for the younger, Palestinian "Stand Tall" generation in their relationships with their counterpart younger Jewish Israeli generation.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful By Muriel Singer on December 6, 2005
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This is a must read for anyone interested in an "insider's" view of the Palestinean-Israeli conflict. By intersecting their own personal histories alongside the social and political history of the region, the authors succeed in crafting a unique work of scholarship, told from the voice of the "other." As the authors re-construct their own identities, the reader is also invited to examine his or her own assumptions about the region and the multi-faceted meaning of being a survivor. This is a truly compelling account that sheds new light on the lives of Palestinians living in Israel. Highly recommended!!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful By Matthew Smith on February 21, 2009
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This is an important book for readers to understand the dynamics at play between Israel's minority and majority populations. I found the authors use of their own family histories an enlightening narrative technique they gave the book a human perspective that helped me identify more readily with the work than I otherwise would have. At first I felt that it might come off a little pretentious, but in the end it really helped tie the work together, and I found the technique to be more helpful than pretentious.

The main thing it did was illustrate the progression and evolution of the relationship between Israel and its minority population. One of the most important moments in this narrative was when as a middle aged, professional woman Khawla Abu-Bakar and her husband are delayed in an airport by Israeli security and asked humiliating and demeaning questions, she finally loses her cool and lashes out against these airport workers. The reader gets the sense that this moment is the culmination of years of tiny, seemingly innocuous little incidents that finally breaks the camels back so to speak. You realize this is a major problem; the fact that for almost a million Palestinians they are treated as strangers in their own homes. This book helps readers understand how this impossible situation affects their lives.

I also really enjoyed the discussion how the Left in Israel is really more of a problem than a solution. Their focus on supposed liberal democratic principles of freeing the individual do not take into account the group dynamic of the minority population under a government based on ethnicity. I found the discussion of the incongruities between liberal democracy and a government based on ethnicity to be very interesting.
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3 of 15 people found the following review helpful By Jill Malter on August 19, 2005
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Yes, some of us can remember the generation in Germany that stood up to those Jews, Czechs, and others. But we can also remember that this generation accomplished little of value. And that win or lose, they wouldn't have improved the quality of life for many folks. Now there is a generation of Arabs that is willing to stand up to the Jews. And maybe to others as well. And once again, I can't see how this attitude is going to help anyone, win or lose.

While this book purports to see the Arab war against Israel from both sides, it basically faults Israel for not recognizing the suffering of the Arabs. And I think this misses the point. Even if the charges made against Israel were true, I think Israeli confessions would do little to make life better for Arabs.

The authors seem to praise (and boast about) racist Arab aggression against Israel. And they say that sympathy for the Jews after World War Two is responsible for Israel's existence. They thus imply that Israel's very right to exist is dubious. But they do not point out that had there been no second World War (or at least, no slaughter of millions of Jewish civilians), Israel would still exist, and be quite a bit stronger (and very likely larger).

The authors dismiss the Six Day War as only having a price of seven hundred Israeli dead. Well, they are right about the casualty figures. They are some of the lowest in Jewish history. They might want to look at Jewish casualties at other times when Jews were attacked in the past few centuries. Do you suppose the authors would be so dismissive of an Arab victory if there were relatively few Arab casualties?

Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker say that Israelis are too self-righteous. But even if they are, shouldn't the authors worry about the Arabs too?
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