Object of Memory Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village

Name: Object of Memory Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village
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ISBN: 9780812215250

ISBN-10: 0812215257

ISBN-13: 9780812215250

Edition: 1998

Authors: Susan Slyomovics

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There was a village in Palestine called Ein Houd, whose people traced their ancestry back to one of Saladin's generals who was granted the territory as a reward for his prowess in battle. By the end of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, all the inhabitants of Ein Houd had been dispersed or exiled or had gone into hiding, although their old stone homes were not destroyed. In 1953 the Israeli government established an artists' cooperative community in the houses of the village, now renamed Ein Hod. In the meantime, the Arab inhabitants of Ein Houd moved two kilometers up a neighboring mountain and illegally built a new village. They could not afford to build in stone, and the mountainous terrain…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of illustrations


Preface: An Introduction to Ein Houd/Ein Hod



Memory of Place: Re-Creating the Pre-1948 Palestinian Village



Sequence and Simultaneity: Dada Colonialism in Ein Houd



The Palestinian Arab Village: Kan wa-ma kan (It Was and It Was Not)



Structures of Exile: The Madafah in Israel, Palestine, and Jordan



Iltizam, Fida'i, and Shahid: The Poetics of Palestinian Memory



al-'Awdah: The Gender of Transposed Spaces



Notes on Transliteration and Transcription



House-to-House - A Partial Listing of Jewish Israeli Use of Palestian Arab Spaces and Objects


Notes


Bibliography


Index