Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture - Hardcover

Tamari, Salim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520251296 ISBN 13: 9780520251298

Publisher: University of California Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Essay after essay is enriched with arresting descriptions, illuminating anecdotes and intriguing details. . . . An erudite and original contribution to the history of the Middle East and an inspiring and enjoyable piece of scholarship."-- (11/06/2008)

"A strong contribution to scholarship on Jerusalem in English."--Middle East Journal (07/14/2010)

About the Author:

Salim Tamari is Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine and Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520251296
• ISBN 13: 9780520251298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236