An impossible friendship : group portrait, Jerusalem before and after 1948
Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
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| Omfang | XV, 356 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Prologue: The King David Hotel Bombing, Jerusalem, July 22, 1946 -- Introduction: Reading an impossible friendship through a group portrait -- "Changing Jerusalem : a new panorama of the Holy City" -- Walid Khalidi, a Jerusalemite "in the Byronic tradition" -- Rasha Salam Khalidi, "A non-conformist Moslem Arab Woman" -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer, belated surrealist and "exclusive Geheimtyp" -- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, "spark-plug" of the YMCA Arts Club -- Border crossing -- Public engagement in worlds apart -- Epilogue: Late correspondence.. - "In a 2005 article in the Journal of Palestine Studies historian Walid Khalidi recalls the "small 'ecumenical' circle of friends which met regularly in Jerusalem at its 'headquarters,' the bar of the King David Hotel"--writer Wolfgang Hildesheimer, artist and poet Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Rasha Salam (who later married Khalidi), and Khalidi himself. What brought these Muslim, Jewish, and Christian friends together in Jerusalem as World War II was ending, and what became of them in the aftermath of the creation of Israel and the First Arab-Israeli War? Their stories form the background of That Impossible Friendship, which aims to decenter biography and historical narrative in its complex transnational depiction of the social and cultural postwar history of Jerusalem. Sonja Mejcher-Atassi brings the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into conversation with questions about intellectual exchange, cultural production, and cross-border mobility in order to imagine alternative futures. She demonstrates how social biography can help make sense of history while at the same time telling the story of this friendship and its artistic, literary, and intellectual legacies"--
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| ISBN | 9780231214742. - 9780231214759
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