Main entry:

Klein, Menachem.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, [2014]
©2014

Description:

xii, 336 pages ; 23 cm

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

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.

ISBN:

1849044198 (hardback)
9781849044196 (hardback)
0199396264 (Cloth)
9780199396269 (Cloth)

Subject:

Jewish-Arab relations History.
Relations judéo-arabes Histoire.
15.75 history of Asia.
Ethnic relations.
Jewish-Arab relations.
Palestinafrågan historia.
Etniska relationer historia.
Judar.
Araber.
Israel Ethnic relations History.
Palestine Ethnic relations History.
Jerusalem Ethnic relations History.
Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel) Ethnic relations History.
Hebron Ethnic relations History.
Eretz Israel Ethnic relations History.
Jerusalem (Israel) Ethnic relations.
Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) Ethnic relations.
Hebron (West Bank) Ethnic relations.
Israel.
Israel Tel Aviv Jaffa.
Middle East Jerusalem.
Middle East Palestine.
West Bank Hebron.
Jerusalem.
Hebron.
Jaffa.
Israel Jerusalem.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Watzman, Haim, translator.

Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290291
Call No.: BIB 233264
Status: Available