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JUST PAST? .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .p u o rG sicn a rF & ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:46:19. Page Intentionally Left Blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .p u o rG sicn a rF & ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:46:19. JUST PAST? The making of Israeli archaeology RAZ KLETTER .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .p u o rG sicn a rF & ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:46:46. First published 2006 by Equinox, an imprint of Acumen Published 2014 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon 0X14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © Raz Kletter 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notices Practitioners and researchers must always rely on their own experience and knowledge in evaluating and using any information, methods, compounds, or experiments described herein. In using such information or methods they should be mindful of their own safety and the safety of others, including parties for whom they have a professional responsibility. To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the authors, contributors, or editors, assume any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material herein. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 13: 978-1-84553-085-3 (hbk) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kletter, Raz. Just past?: the making of Israeli archaeology / Raz Kletter. p. cm. .de Includes bibliographical references and index. vrese ISBN 1-84553-085-3 (hb) r sthg asp1e. cEtsx.c 3a.v Iastriaoenls. R(Aarschhuat ehoal-o‘agtyik)—otI-s-rOaeflf—icPiaollsi taicnadl eamsppelcotys.e e2s. .I s4r. aIeslr—aeAl-n-tPiqouliittiicess a—nPdo litical ir llA government--20th century. 5. Archaeologists—Israel. I. Title. .pu DS111.K57 2006 o rG 933'072'05694—dc22 2005008378 sicn a rF & Typeset by Kate Williams, Swansea. ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:47:04. Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow. Edmund of Abingdon, first known MA holder of Oxford University, d. 1240 (quoted in Morris 1978: 8) .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .p u o rG sicn a rF & ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:47:04. Page Intentionally Left Blank .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .p u o rG sicn a rF & ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:47:04. CONTENTS List of illustrations ix Introduction xiii Acknowledgements xvi Abbreviations xix 1 Archaeology and the 1948 War 1 2 Abandoned places, new places 42 3 Foreign aid 82 4 Frozen funds 90 5 A battalion of guards 117 6 Relief work 133 7 Man robs his land: “agreement” with General Dayan 150 8 “Gold of Ophir for Beth-Horon”: 3,000 shekels 165 .d 9 The building beyond the border: the pam, 1948-67 174 e vrese 10 A building of dreams: a home for the idam and the r sth origins of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem 193 g ir llA 11 A dead man on the council: the story of the supreme 214 .pu archaeological body in Israel o rG sicn 12 “But trust comes from the heart”: travels with the Government 250 arF Tourist Corporation & ro 13 “Whether in a courtyard of a synagogue, in a courtyard adjacent 284 lya T .4 to a synagogue, or under a synagogue”: the Safad affair 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C vii Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:47:20. JUST PAST? THE MAKING OF ISRAELI ARCHAEOLOGY 14 The policy of salvage and early Israeli excavations 295 15 Myths and conclusions 310 Appendix: other documents from the IDAM files 321 Bibliography 333 Author index 345 Index 347 .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .p u o rG sicn a rF & ro lya T .4 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C viii Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:47:20. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS All photographs courtesy the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), except Figure 1 by the author and Figures 10,13,19,22,23 and 28, from Ginzach Leumi (GL) documents by the author. 1. Map of tours of archaeological officers, June-August 1948. 2. Second tour of officers, (a) Megiddo, 29 July 1948. Yeivin (left), B. Mazar (seated centre) and probably the military commander of Megiddo (right). (Photograph probably by Ben-Dor, IAA 2401) (b) Megiddo, 29 July 1948. A camouflaged evacuation post for wounded soldiers still occupies the con­ structed (misnamed “Aegean”) tomb in Schumacher s trench. (Photograph probably by Ben-Dor, IAA 2402) (c) Nazareth [?]. Armoured vehicle accom­ panying the archaeologists. (Photograph by Ben-Dor, IAA 2408) 3. The “cave strongpoint”, Beit Jubrin 1949. Ashlar wall exposed by military trenches. (Photograph by Ory, IAA 60) 4. Selbit (Shaalabim) 1949. Abandoned Arab village, showing courtyard with .d antiquities. (IAA 320) e vre 5. Jaffa, old city, c. 1950. The “Arab soap factory - [Hana] Damyani and Sons” se r sth building. Note the zone and house number registration, signifying that it gir llA .p wanads idt essutrivnievde dfo. Tr hpere fsaemrvilayt iwonas. kTnhoew bnu iinld Jianfgfa i,s a Mnda hmaldu kn ionre teeaernlyth O-ctetonmtuarny u orG ancestors who served several European countries. See Kark (1990:256) for sicn a very similar photograph from 1977. a rF 6. Abandoned village of Khartiyeh, November 1948. Mud houses with tools. & ro (Photograph by Ory, IAA 143) lya T 7. Jaffa, old city, November 1948. Excavations by Guy. (IAA 15220) .4 10 8. Kh. Jalameh 1949. Some inhabitants are seen; the village was occupied. 2 © th g iryp o C Kletter, Raz. Just Past? : The Making of Israeli Archaeology, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nottingham/detail.action?docID=1886900. Created from nottingham on 2022-04-01 09:47:39.

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