Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword xi
4. Introduction: Social Biographies in Making Sense of History 1
5. Part One. Voices of the Ottoman Past: From the Mountains to the Sea
6. 1. “Left Naked on the Beach”: The Villagers of Aylut in the Grip of the New Templers 27
7. 2. The Sephardi Entrepreneur and British Vice-Consul Haim Amzalak 39
8. 3. A Musician’s Lot: Wasif Jawhariyyeh’s Old Jerusalem 51
9. 4. Revolutionary Pioneer: Manya Shochat and Her Commune 63
10. Part Two. From Empire to Empire: Palestine under British Rule
11. 5. Hero or Antihero? S. Yizhar’s Ambivalent Zionism and the First Sabra Generation 85
12. 6. “A Son of the Country”: Dr. Tawfiq Canaan, Modernist Physician and Palestinian Ethnographer 104
13. 7. The Ordeal of Henya Pekelman, a Female Construction Worker 125
14. 8. “A Nation in a Hero”: Abdul Rahim Hajj Mohammad and the Arab Revolt 141
15. 9. Hillel Kook: Revisionism and Rescue 157
16. Part Three. A State Is Born; A Nation Is Dispersed
17. 10. Matar Ἁbdelrahim: From a Palestinian Village to a Syrian Refugee Camp 179
18. 11. Joseph Spronz: From the Holocaust to a Safe Shore 196
19. 12. The Trees Die Standing: A Story of a Palestinian Refugee 221
20. 13. The Brief Career of Prosper Cohen: A Would-Be Leader of Moroccan Immigrants 239
21. 14. A Tale of Baghdad and Tel Aviv 256
22. 15. Is Slavery Over? Black and White Arab Bedouin Women in the Naqab (Negev) 271
23. Part Four. A Land Occupied and Liberated
24. 16. Of Possessions and Dispossessions: A Story of Palestinian Property in Jewish Israeli Lives 295
25. 17. The Rise and Fall of the Russian-Speaking Journalist in Israel 306
26. 18. The Village against the Settlement: Two Generations of Conflict in the Nablus Region 318
27. 19. Majed al-Masri in Two Intifadas in Nablus 337
28. Part Five. An Impossible Peace, a Shared Future?
29. 20. Benni Gaon: From Socialist to Capitalist Tycoon 357
30. 21. From Religion to Revenge: Becoming a Hamas Suicide Bomber 370
31. 22. Yigael Amir: The Making of a Political Assassin 384
32. 23. Mais in the War of the Words 399
33. 24. Jonathan Pollak: An Anarchist “Traitor” in His Own Society 413
34. 25. Abu Ahmad and His Handalas 427
35. List of Contributors 445
36. Index 451