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Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture Book

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture, 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 offe, Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture has a rating of 5 stars
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Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture, 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 offe, Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
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  • Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
  • Written by author Salim Tamari
  • Published by University of California Press, November 2008
  • 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 offe
  • "Irreverent, erudite, captivating, and deeply informed, Mountain against the Sea is a must-read book by the leading essayist on the cultural history of Palestine and the Palestinians."—Beshara Doumani, author of Rediscovering Palestine
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1 Introduction: Palestine's Conflictual Modernity 1

2 The Mountain against the Sea? Cultural Wars of the Eastern Mediterranean 22

3 From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna: Small Towns and Social Control 36

4 Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City 56

5 A Musician's Lot: The Jawhariyyeh Memoirs as a Key to Jerusalem's Early Modernity 71

6 Lepers, Lunatics, and Saints: The Nativist Ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and His Circle 93

7 Sultana and Khalil: The Origins of Romantic Love in Palestine 113

8 The Last Feudal Lord 133

9 Ishaq Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine 150

10 The Enigmatic Bolshevik from the Holy City 167

11 The Vagabond Cafe and Jerusalem's Prince of Idleness 176

Notes 191

Bibliography 215

Index 223


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