Mountain Against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520251298)

This groundbreaking book on modern Palestinian culture goes beyond the usual focal point of the 1948 war to address the earlier, formative years. Drawing on previously unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari offers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the momentous first half of the twentieth century. He brings to light the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned (and defined) the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist. These essays present an integrated cultural history that illuminates a watershed in the modern social history of the Arab East, the formulation of the Arab Enlightenment.

Author: Salim Tamari
ISBN-10: 0520251296
ISBN-13: 9780520251298
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.28w x 0.86d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/09/2009 pg. 18
Choice 10/01/2009