Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel Book

Foreword by Edmund Burke III

Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine

Part One. Voices of the Ottoman Past: From the Mountains to the Sea
1. "Left Naked on the Beach": The Villagers of Aylut in the Grip of the New Templers Mahmoud Yazbak

2. The Sephardi Entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak Joseph B. Glass and Ruth Kark

3. A Musician's Lot: Wasif Jawhariyyeh's Old Jerusalem Salim Tamari

4. Revolutionary Pioneer: Manya Shochat and Her Commune Gershon Shafir

Part Two: From Empire to Empire: Palestine under British Rule
5. Hero or Antihero? S. Yizhar's Ambivalent Zionism and the First Sabra Generation Nitsa Ben-Ari

6. "A Son of the Country": Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, Modernist Physician and Palestinian Ethnographer Philippe Bourmaud

7. The Ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a Female Construction Worker David De Vries and Talia Pfeffermann

8. "A Nation in a Hero": Hajj Mohammad Abdul Rahim and the Arab Revolt Sonia Nimr

9. Hillel Kook: Revisionism and Rescue Becky Kook

Part Three: A State Is Born; A Nation Is Dispersed
10. Matar 'Abdelrahim: From a Palestinian Village to a Syrian Refugee Camp Rochelle Davis

11. Joseph Spronz: From the Holocaust to a Safe Shore Gershon Shafir

12. The Trees Die Standing: A Story of a Palestinian Refugee Ramzy Baroud

13. The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Would-Be Leader of Moroccan Jewry Yaron Tsur

14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv Aziza Khazzoom

15. Is Slavery Over? Black and White Bedouin Women in the Naqab (Negev)
Safa Abu-Rabia

Part Four: A Land Occupied and Liberated
16. Of Possessions and Dispossessions: A Story of Palestinian Property in Jewish Israeli Lives Rebecca L. Stein

17. The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Speaking Journalist in Israel Nelly Elias and Julia Lerner

18. The Village against the Settlement: Two Generations of Conflict in the Nablus Region Moriel Ram and Mark LeVine

19. Majed al-Masri in Two
Intifadas in Nablus Lætitia Bucaille

Part Five: An Impossible Peace, a Shared Future?
20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon Michal Frenkel

21. From Religion to Revenge: Becoming a Hamas Suicide Bomber Bader Araj

22. Yigael Amir: The Making of a Political Assassin Michael Feige

23. Mais in the War of the Words Erin F. Olsen

24. Jonathan Pollak: An Anarchist "Traitor" in His Own Society Neve Gordon

25. Abu Ahmad and His Handalas Ala Alazzeh

List of Contributors
Index