On (not) Speaking Zochrot in German
Author: Cornelia Siebeck 01/2012
Miracles and Snow in Palestine and Israel: Tantura, a History of 1948
Author: Alon Confino \ Indiana University Press 2012
On a beautiful Mediterranean coast, in the newly-established state of Israel, one way of life violently and abruptly ended and a new one began, when the inhabitants of Tantura squarely faced the war on 22–23 May 1948 for a brief period of 25 days—from the Jewish occupation of the village, the arrest of the men and the expulsion to Furaydis of the rest of the population, via the second expulsion to Jordan, to the settlement of Kibbutz Nachsholim. How did this happen exactly? Why did the Jews act as they did, and how did they construct their cultural world and mental horizons? And how are we to tell this story?
Fragmented Dreams
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Eleonore 12/2011
They tried to imagine their lives together when the Palestinian refugees returned. They did so with simple drawings accompanied by explanatory text
A panel and discussion on The Nakba and the right of return at Tel Hai
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Eleonore 12/2011
As Walter Benjamin's History Angel, Israelis and many people in the world see the horrors pile rising to the sky and they want to stop the wind pushes us over the edge or at least stop naming it "progress", "villa in the jungle" or "democracy".
Palestinian refugees at the human rights march in Tel Aviv
Author: Eitan Bronstein. Photography: Galit Aloni 11/2011
In that fleeting moment when my eyes moved over the posters/faces/people, from one, to the next, thinking I may see my grandfather, or a perhaps his father or mother, a particular face looks into my heart, into my soul, and I can’t turn away
Toward a New Language
Author: Eitan Bronstein 10/2011
Overdue Books: Returning Palestine’s “Abandoned Property” of 1948
Author: Hannah Mermelstein 09/2011
his study will focus solely on the 6,000 books with the “AP” designation, and aims to contribute to uncovering a particular historical episode and to offer suggestions on how to move forward with the information the study gathers. It will place the story of Palestine’s looted books in the larger political contexts of Zionism and other cases of looted cultural property during times of war and occupation, namely that of Jewish property looted by Nazis.
his study will focus solely on the 6,000 books with the “AP” designation, and aims to contribute to uncovering a particular historical episode and to offer suggestions on how to move forward with the information the study gathers. It will place the story of Palestine’s looted books in the larger political contexts of Zionism and other cases of looted cultural property during times of war and occupation, namely that of Jewish property looted by Nazis.
In the Absence of an Iconic Image
Author: Aviv Gross-Alon and Eitan Bronstein 09/2011
