| Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture Contributor(s): Tamari, Salim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520251296 ISBN-13: 9780520251298 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $84.15 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Islamic Studies - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 956.940 |
| LCCN: 2008021097 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.28" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Arabic - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |