The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon by Ussama Makdisi  (2)
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This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages. Drawing from a wealth of untapped primary sources, including Ottoman records, Jaffa Shari'a court documents, town planning records, oral histories, and numerous Zionist and European archival sources, LeVine challenges nationalist historiographies of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, revealing the manifold interactions of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities that lived there.
At the center of the book is a discussion of how Tel Aviv's self-definition as the epitome of modernity affected its and Jaffa's development and Jaffa's own modern pretenses as well. As he unravels this dynamic, LeVine provides new insights into how popular cultures and public spheres evolved in this intersection of colonial, modern, and urban space. He concludes with a provocative discussion of how these discourses affected the development of today's unified city of Tel Aviv-Yafo and, through it, Israeli and Palestinian identities within in and outside historical Palestine.
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"This is an exciting and important book about social and urban history as well as borders and identity, specifically of modern Middle East. The story Le Vine unfolds is easy to follow and get involved with."--Leila Fawaz, author of An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Demascus in 1860
"This is a foundational work for a new way of studying Palestinian-Israeli relations. LeVine conceptualizes the experience of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews as interdependent and interreferential."--Gershon Shafir, co-author of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship
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This landmark book offers a truly integrated perspective for understanding the formation of Jewish and Palestinian Arab identities and relations in Palestine before 1948. Beginning with the late Ottoman period Mark LeVine explores the evolving history and geography of two cities: Jaffa, one of the oldest ports in the world, and Tel Aviv, which was born alongside Jaffa and by 1948 had annexed it as well as its surrounding Arab villages. Drawing from a wealth of untapped primary sources, including Ottoman records, Jaffa Shari'a court documents, town planning records, oral histories, and numerous Zionist and European archival sources, LeVine challenges nationalist historiographies of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, revealing the manifold interactions of the Jewish and Palestinian Arab communities that lived there.
At the center of the book is a discussion of how Tel Aviv's self-definition as the epitome of modernity affected its and Jaffa's development and Jaffa's own modern pretenses as well. As he unravels this dynamic, LeVine provides new insights into how popular cultures and public spheres evolved in this intersection of colonial, modern, and urban space. He concludes with a provocative discussion of how these discourses affected the development of today's unified city of Tel Aviv-Yafo and, through it, Israeli and Palestinian identities within in and outside historical Palestine.
From the Inside Flap
"This is an exciting and important book about social and urban history as well as borders and identity, specifically of modern Middle East. The story Le Vine unfolds is easy to follow and get involved with."--Leila Fawaz, author of An Occasion for War: Civil Conflict in Lebanon and Demascus in 1860
"This is a foundational work for a new way of studying Palestinian-Israeli relations. LeVine conceptualizes the experience of Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews as interdependent and interreferential."--Gershon Shafir, co-author of Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship
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Inside Another Edition of this Book Citations: This book cites 100 books Explore: Citations | Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Key Phrases - SIPs: modernity matrix, town planning discourses, matruka land, town planning area, mawat land (more) Key Phrases - CAPs: Tel Aviv, Palestinian Arab, Ahuzat Bayit, Jaffa Municipality, International Style (more) Browse Sample Pages: Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Surprise Me! |
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Why has modernity and its antinomies played such an important role in the history of the Jaffa-Tel Aviv region, and through it, in the larger historical and political history of Palestine/Israel? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modernity matrix, town planning discourses, matruka land, town planning area, mawat land, fourfold matrix, urban kibbutz, bedouin lands, town planning commission, orange trade, miri land, waqf land, town planning legislation, surrounding orchards, town planning scheme, colonial modernity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tel Aviv, Palestinian Arab, Ahuzat Bayit, Jaffa Municipality, International Style, Jaffa Port, Neve Tzedek, World War, Peres Center, Hassan Bey, Middle East, Yarkon River, Jaffa's Jewish, Andromeda Hill, Sheikh Muwannis, New York, Crimean War, Jaffa's Palestinian, Neve Shalom, Eretz Israel, Herzl Gymnasium, Jaffa's Arab, Jewish National Fund, Meir Dizengoff, Arab Palestine New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Surprise Me!
Why has modernity and its antinomies played such an important role in the history of the Jaffa-Tel Aviv region, and through it, in the larger historical and political history of Palestine/Israel? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
modernity matrix, town planning discourses, matruka land, town planning area, mawat land, fourfold matrix, urban kibbutz, bedouin lands, town planning commission, orange trade, miri land, waqf land, town planning legislation, surrounding orchards, town planning scheme, colonial modernity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tel Aviv, Palestinian Arab, Ahuzat Bayit, Jaffa Municipality, International Style, Jaffa Port, Neve Tzedek, World War, Peres Center, Hassan Bey, Middle East, Yarkon River, Jaffa's Jewish, Andromeda Hill, Sheikh Muwannis, New York, Crimean War, Jaffa's Palestinian, Neve Shalom, Eretz Israel, Herzl Gymnasium, Jaffa's Arab, Jewish National Fund, Meir Dizengoff, Arab Palestine New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Surprise Me!
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- The Rural Middle East: Peasant Lives and Modes of Production by Kathy Glavanis on 4 pages
- Past Continuous (Tusk Ivories) by Yaakov Shabtai on page 132, page 134, and Back Matter
- The Postmodernism Debate in Latin America (boundary 2 book) by John Beverley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Middle East (Middle East Review) by Hunter Publishing in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Palestinian Society and Politics by Joel S. Migdal in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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