Architecture in Palestine During the British Mandate, 1917-1948
Author : Ada Karmi-Melamed
Publisher :
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789652784230
Author : Ada Karmi-Melamed
Publisher :
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789652784230
Author : Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler
Publisher : EUP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474457507
An architectural history of four prominent buildings in Jerusalem. Includes new research on public and civic architecture of Mandate Palestine. Focuses on four case studies: the Muslim Palestinian Palace Hotel, the Jewish-Zionist Zionist Executive Buildings, the British Palestine Archaeological Museum and the American Jerusalem YMCA Building. Reveals the major role that architecture and architectural culture had in constructing communal and national identities in Jerusalem and in Mandate Palestine. Increases our understanding of the interaction between cultural forces in the Middle East and the emergence of 20th-century architectural culture in Israel/Palestine. Makes a significant contribution to research into the built environments of mixed cities, contested spaces and cities under foreign rule. Deepens our understanding of present spatial dilemmas and their context within the Israeli-Palestinian conflic. Four major communities, four buildings constructing their identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem.
Author : Raquel Rapaport
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
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Author : Raquel Rapaport
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
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Author : Rashid Khalidi
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1627798544
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective. Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process. Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
Author : Effy E. Eli
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2006
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Author : Kenneth Frampton
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0500775923
An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of globalization and the phenomenon of international celebrity architects, this book is the definitive history of modern architecture. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition of Modern Architecture, Frampton added new chapters exploring the ongoing modernist tradition in architecture while also examining the varied responses to the urgent need to build more sustainably and create structures that will withstand changing climates. This new edition features completely redesigned interiors and an updated and expanded bibliography, making this volume more indispensable than ever.
Author : Yair Wallach
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1503611140
In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people. A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism, the affinities of Arabic and Hebrew were forgotten and these sister-languages found themselves locked in a bitter war. Looking at the writing of—and literally on—Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
Author : Albert Montefiore Hyamson
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Mandates
ISBN :
From the John Holmes Library collection.
Author : Daphna Sharfman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1003833780
This book is the first to present the unique story of the city of Jerusalem during the events of the Second World War and how it played a unique role in both the military and civilian aspects of the war. Whilst Jerusalem is usually known for topics such as religion, archaeology, or the politics of the Israeli–Arab conflict, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of this exceptional and temporary situation in Jerusalem, offering a perspective that is different from the usual political-strategic-military analysis. Although battles were raging in the nearby countries of Syria and Lebanon, and the war in Egypt and the Western Desert, the people who came to Jerusalem, as well as those who lived there, had different agendas and perspectives. Some were spies and intelligence officers, other were exiles or refugee immigrants from Europe who managed at the last moment to escape Nazi persecution. Journalists and writers described life in the city at this time. All were probably conscious of the fact that when the war came to an end, local rivalry and mounting conflict would take the centre stage again. This was a time of a special, magical drawn-out moment that may shed light on an alternative, more peaceful, kind of Jerusalem that unfortunately was not to be. This volume seeks to find an alternative approach and to contribute to the development of insightful research into life in an unordinary city in an unordinary situation. It will be of value to those interested in military history and the history of the Middle East.