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Mountain Against the Sea

Mountain Against the Sea Social Sciences

Mountain Against the Sea

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Description
This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. 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 period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. These essays present an integrated cultural history that illuminates a watershed in the modern social history of the Arab East, the formulation of the Arab Enlightenment.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
235
Release Date:
2008-11-03
Publication Date:
2008-11-30
Publisher:
University Press Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0520251296
ISBN13:
9780520251298
Weight:
525 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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