Jaffa Shared and Shattered

384 Pages·2015·4.63 MB·English

by  Monterescu, Daniel

JAFFA Shared and Shattered
Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
Paul A. Silverstein, Susan Slyomovics, and Ted Swedenburg, editors
JAFFA

SHARED AND SHATTERED

CONTRIVED COEXISTENCE IN
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
DANIEL MONTERESCU
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photocopying and recording, or by (ebook) 1. Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)—
any information storage and retrieval Ethnic relations—History. 2. Jaffa (Tel
system, without permission in writing Aviv, Israel)—Social conditions—20th
from the publisher. The Association century. 3. Palestinian Arabs—Israel—
of American University Presses’ Tel Aviv. I. Title.
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In memory of
Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012),
and for Hillel, Gaia, Mar‘i, Nadia, and
Michael—the promising futures . . .
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The superficial inducement, the exotic, the picturesque has an effect
only on the foreigner. To portray a city, a native must have other,
deeper motives—motives of one who travels into the past instead
of into the distance. A native’s book about his city will always be re-
lated to memoirs; the writer has not spent his childhood there in vain.
—Walter Benjamin
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CONTENTS
· Acknowledgments xi
· Note on Transliteration and Translation xvii
Introduction Contrived Coexistence: Relational Histories of
Urban Mix in Israel/Palestine 1
Part one Beyond Methodological Nationalism:
Communal Formations and Ambivalent Belonging
1 Spatial Relationality: Theorizing Space and
Sociality in Jewish-Arab “Mixed Towns” 29
2 The Bridled “Bride of Palestine”: Urban
Orientalism and the Zionist Quest for Place 67
3 The “Mother of the Stranger”: Palestinian Presence
and the Ambivalence of Sumud 97
Part two Sharing Place or Consuming Space:
The Neoliberal City
4 Inner Space and High Ceilings: Agents and
Ideologies of Ethnogentrification 135
5 To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the
Gated Community 177