Mountain against the Sea
Salim Tamari
University of California Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
regional history, aristocrats, musicians, teachers, pre war years, nonfiction, early 20th century, political science, palestinian conflict, cultural history, arab east, social perspective, doctors, diaries, palestine, palestinian culture, modern palestine, memoirs, biographies, essays, letters, palestinian jews, global society, boshevik revolutionary, novelist, jerusalem, war and peace, intellectuals, modern history, social history, middle east, arab enlightenment