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Lives in common : Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron

Title

Lives in common : Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron / Menachem Klein ; translated by Haim Watzman.

Author

Klein, Menachem.

Publication

London : Hurst & Company, [2014]
©2014

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Additional Authors

Watzman, Haim

Description

xii, 336 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron-and their intermingled Jewish, Muslim and Christian inhabitants, from the nineteenth century to the present. Each of them was and still is a mixed city. Jerusalem and Hebron are holy places, while Jaffa till 1948 was Palestine's principal city and main port of entry. Klein portrays a society in the late Ottoman period in which Jewish-Arab interactions were intense, frequent, and meaningful, before the onset of segregation and separation gradually occurred in the Mandate era. The unequal power relations and increasing violence between Jews and Arabs from 1948 onwards are also scrutinised. Throughout, Klein bases his writing not on the official record but rather on a hitherto hidden private world of Jewish-Arab encounters, including marriages and squabbles, kindnesses and cruelties, as set out in dozens of memoirs, diaries, biographies and testimonies. Lives in Common brings together the voices of Jews and Arabs in a mosaic of fascinating stories, of lived experiences and of the major personalities that shaped them over the last 150 years.

Uniform Title

‏קשורים. English
Ḳeshurim. English

Alternative Title

‏קשורים.
Ḳeshurim.
Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Translation of the Hebrew manuscript that was published in 2015 with the title: Ḳeshurim : ha-sipur shel bene ha-Arets ([Tel Aviv] : ha-Ḳibuts ha-me'uḥad, [2015]). There is some additional material in the Hebrew edition.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-323) and index.

Contents

Part I Connected to place -- Introduction : Jerusalem, Jaffa Gate/Bab al-Khalil the gate of forked ways -- Chapter 1 Arab Jews -- Neither oxymoron nor aspersion -- The Locals -- Chapter 2 Mixed cities -- A Holy Site chooses a city-a city chooses a holy site -- Coexistence disturbed by confrontation -- Chapter 3 Life On the verge of the future -- A Large problem in a small place -- Conflict as routine -- Part II Connected by force -- Chapter 4 Expanding the boundaries of the possible -- A New land -- An Ambiguous V -- Chapter 5 Like owners -- Transferring the deed -- Houses from within, people from without -- Chapter 6 Occupation, assimilation, opposition -- Jerusalem : A bustling and noisy place -- Jaffa : Abandoned and attractive -- Hebron and Jerusalem : The force of history -- Epilogue.

ISBN

1849044198
9781849044196
0199396264
9780199396269

LCCN

40024431081
99961340780

OCLC

ocn890853238
890853238
SCSB-14413444

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library