Table of Contents
Foreword by Edmund Burke III
Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History
Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine
Part One. Voices of the Ottoman Past: From the Mountains to the Sea
1. “Left Naked on the Beach”: The Villagers of Aylut in the Grip of the New Templers
Mahmoud Yazbak
2. The Sephardi Entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak
Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark
3. A Musician’s Lot: Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s Old Jerusalem
Salim Tamari
4. Revolutionary Pioneer: Manya Shochat and Her Commune
Gershon Shafir
Part Two: From Empire to Empire: Palestine under British Rule
5. Hero or Antihero? S. Yizhar’s Ambivalent Zionism and the First Sabra Generation
Nitsa Ben-Ari
6. “A Son of the Country”: Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, Modernist Physician and Palestinian Ethnographer
Philippe Bourmaud
7. The Ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a Female Construction Worker
David De Vries and Talia Pfeffermann
8. “A Nation in a Hero”: Hajj Mohammad Abdul Rahim and the Arab Revolt
Sonia Nimr
9. Hillel Kook: Revisionism and Rescue
Becky Kook
Part Three: A State Is Born; A Nation Is Dispersed
10. Matar ‘Abdelrahim: From a Palestinian Village to a Syrian Refugee Camp
Rochelle Davis
11. Joseph Spronz: From the Holocaust to a Safe Shore
Gershon Shafir
12. The Trees Die Standing: A Story of a Palestinian Refugee
Ramzy Baroud
13. The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Would-Be Leader of Moroccan Jewry
Yaron Tsur
14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv
Aziza Khazzoom
15. Is Slavery Over? Black and White Bedouin Women in the Naqab (Negev)
Safa Abu-Rabia
Part Four: A Land Occupied and Liberated
16. Of Possessions and Dispossessions: A Story of Palestinian Property in Jewish Israeli Lives
Rebecca L. Stein
17. The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Speaking Journalist in Israel
Nelly Elias and Julia Lerner
18. The Village against the Settlement: Two Generations of Conflict in the Nablus Region
Moriel Ram and Mark LeVine
19. Majed al-Masri in Two Intifadas in Nablus
Lætitia Bucaille
Part Five: An Impossible Peace, a Shared Future?
20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon
Michal Frenkel
21. From Religion to Revenge: Becoming a Hamas Suicide Bomber
Bader Araj
22. Yigael Amir: The Making of a Political Assassin
Michael Feige
23. Mais in the War of the Words
Erin F. Olsen
24. Jonathan Pollak: An Anarchist “Traitor” in His Own Society
Neve Gordon
25. Abu Ahmad and His Handalas
Ala Alazzeh
List of Contributors
Index
