Mountain against the sea
essays on Palestinian society and culture
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Author
Publication
2008 - University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, California
Language
English
Word Count
59,250 words, Guess
Page Count
237 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780520251298
- ISBN-100520251296
- Goodreads4887210
- Library of Congress Control Number2008021097
- OCLC Control Number225871531
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780520251298
- Open LibraryOL19327494M
Classifications
- DDC956.9405
- LCCDS112 .T36 2008
- LCCDS112.T36 2008
and 1 more
- LCCDS112 .T36 2009
Description
"This history of modern Palestinian culture is particularly refreshing because it goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the formative period that preceded it. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the interwar period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. Taken together, these essays present an integrated cultural history that illuminates a defining moment in the modern social history of the Arab East, the formulation of the Arab Enlightenment. Written by a leading Palestinian sociologist and Jerusalem expert, Mountain against the Sea offers a vital and original contribution to our understanding of Palestinian history and culture."--Jacket.
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