Pre State Photographic Archives And The Zionist Movement

Author : Rotem Rozental
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000856224

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Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement by Rotem Rozental Pdf

By entering and critically re-activating the Zionist photographic archive established by the Division of Journalism and Propaganda of the Jewish National Fund, this research examines its rippling impact on civil landscapes prior to 1948 in Palestine, and its lasting impact on the region to date. This study argues that the Zionist movement makes particular use of the machinery of the photographic archive, aiming to constitute the boundaries of Palestine as a Jewish state, claiming ownership over the land and announcing internationally the success of its enterprise, thus substantiating the image it sought to embed as the “reality” of the land. This archive was not stand-alone, as it was functioning in relation to a vast, complicated network of organizational systems and technologies, in the Middle East and across the world. Crucially, this system functioned as a national archive in future tense, for a nation-state that was not yet in existence, seeking to substantiate its regional authority and shape its cultural repository, outlining parameters for inclusion and exclusion from its civic space. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, photography history, visual culture, Jewish studies, Israel studies and Middle East studies.

Author : Jane Simon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000954388

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The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography by Jane Simon Pdf

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic, this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism, and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation, arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical. Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form, artists from around the globe are examined, including Rinko Kawauchi, Catherine Opie, Dayanita Singh, Moyra Davey, and Elina Brotherus, who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors, domestic objects, and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures, this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors, public and private, and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory, art history, and visual studies.

Author : Julie Bonzon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000953251

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The Market Photo Workshop in South Africa and the 'Born Free' Generation by Julie Bonzon Pdf

This study presents the history of the Market Photo Workshop (MPW) in Johannesburg and works produced by its new generation of photography students. Founded in 1989 by internationally renowned documentary photographer David Goldblatt, the MPW has reflected upon South African political struggles and sociocultural changes since its creation. Its foundation parallels a moment in time when photography was considered a ‘truth telling’ genre and an essential source of documents deployed against the apartheid regime. This book reflects on the evolution of the MPW in the post-apartheid era and explores how its new generation of students engages the photographic tradition of this institution and the revolutionary times that accompanied its creation to question their present moment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, photography, African studies, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.

Author : Rotem Rozental
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1402982389

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Photographic Archives, Nationalism and The Foundation of The Jewish State, 1903–1948 by Rotem Rozental Pdf

Author : Stephanie Polsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000914702

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The Photographic Invention of Whiteness by Stephanie Polsky Pdf

Focusing on the creation of the concept of Whiteness, this study links early photographic imagery to the development and exploitation that were common in the colonial Atlantic World of the mid-to-late nineteenth century. With the advent of the daguerreotype in the mid-nineteenth century, White European settlers could imagine themselves as a supra-national community, where the attainment of wealth was rapidly becoming accessible through colonisation. Their dispersal throughout the colonial territories made possible the advent of a new representative type of Whiteness that eventually merged with the portrayal of modernity itself. Over time, the colonisation of the Atlantic World became synonymous with fascination itself within a European mind fixated upon both a racially subordinated world and the technical media through which it was represented. In the intervening centuries, images have acted as a medium of the imaginary, allowing for ideas around classification and the measurement of value to travel and to situate themselves as universal means. Contemporary societies still grapple with the residues of race, gender, class, and sexuality first established by the contrived mores of this representational medium, and those who were racialised by the camera as objects of fascination, curiosity, or concern have remained so well into the post-digital era. The book will be of interest to scholars working in history of photography, art history, colonialism, and critical race theory.

Author : Michael Berkowitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894204

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Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933 by Michael Berkowitz Pdf

This 1996 book is a study of the Zionist movement in Germany, Britain, and the United States, 1914-33.

Author : Erica B. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742549380

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Hadassah and the Zionist Project by Erica B. Simmons Pdf

Hadassah and the Zionist Project offers a fresh perspective on Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America and the largest women's organization in the United States, telling the fascinating story of how American Jewish women played a leading role in achieving Zionist goals and shaping the state of Israel. The book also traces Hadassah's involvement in the child rescue movement, which saved thousands of children from Nazi-occupied Europe, as well as from the beleaguered Jewish communities of the Middle East and North Africa. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author : Walter Laqueur
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 639 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0805208992

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A History of Zionism by Walter Laqueur Pdf

Discusses the European background, the prehistory of the movement, five decades of Zionist activities, and ends with the establishement of the state of Israel.

Author : Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135768614

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Zionism in an Arab Country by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Pdf

Zionism in an Arab Country explores the relations between the Zionist establishment in Israel, and the Jewish community in Iraq. This relationship is centred on two organizations: a Zionist movement and a defense organization. By reviewing the activity of these organizations, Esther Meir-Glitzstein examines the decade preceding mass immigration, and reveals the political, societal, economic and cultural developments that shaped the history of Iraqi Jewry in this crucial period. Beyond the main focus on the sphere of Zionist activity, Meir-Glitzstein also uncovers the basic problems that shaped both the development of Iraqi Jewry in the 1940s and the policy of the Zionist establishment - trapped between Arab nationalism and Jewish nationalism. Finally, she elucidates the reasons and circumstances that led to the mass immigration of Jews from Iraq to the state of Israel.

Author : Menahem Kaufman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 0814323707

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An Ambiguous Partnership by Menahem Kaufman Pdf

While the history of Zionism in America is well documented, the history of non-Zionist activities in America is less well known. An Ambiguous Partnership now tells that story. Dr Menahem Kaufman gives a detailed account of how American public figures and Jewish organizations, self-defined as non-Zionists, were influenced by changing attitudes in American society and government towards the Zionist struggle and by the problem of Holocaust survivors in Europe. This study describes the non-Zionists involvement in the political processes in Washington and the United Nations, which eventually brought about the establishment of the State of Israel.

Author : Mikhal Dekel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781324001041

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Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey by Mikhal Dekel Pdf

Fleeing East from Nazi terror, over a million Polish Jews traversed the Soviet Union, many finding refuge in Muslim lands. Their story—the extraordinary saga of two-thirds of Polish Jewish survivors—has never been fully told. Author Mikhal Dekel’s father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland where their family had been successful brewers for centuries, they endured extreme suffering in the Soviet forced labor camps known as “special settlements.” Then came a journey during which tens of thousands died of starvation and disease en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. While American organizations negotiated to deliver aid to the hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews who remained there, Dekel’s father and aunt were two of nearly one thousand refugee children who were evacuated to Iran, where they were embraced by an ancient Persian-Jewish community. Months later, their Zionist caregivers escorted them via India to Mandatory Palestine, where, at the endpoint of their thirteen-thousand-mile journey, they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees (including over one hundred thousand Polish Catholics). The arrival of the “Tehran Children” was far from straightforward, as religious and secular parties vied over their futures in what would soon be Israel. Beginning with the death of the inscrutable Tehran Child who was her father, Dekel fuses memoir with extensive archival research to recover this astonishing story, with the help of travel companions and interlocutors including an Iranian colleague, a Polish PiS politician, a Russian oligarch, and an Uzbek descendent of Korean deportees. The history she uncovers is one of the worst and the best of humanity. The experiences her father and aunt endured, along with so many others, ultimately reshaped and redefined their lives and identities and those of other refugees and rescuers, profoundly and permanently, during and after the war. With literary grace, Tehran Children presents a unique narrative of the Holocaust, whose focus is not the concentration camp, but the refugee, and whose center is not Europe, but Central Asia and the Middle East.

Author : Vivienne Silver-Brody
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society of America
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047500858

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Documentors of the Dream by Vivienne Silver-Brody Pdf

Over 225 striking black and white photographs comprise this comprehensive book, the first to chart the origins and development of Eretz Israel as seen through the eyes of Jewish photographers.

Author : Yosef Kats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural colonies
ISBN : UOM:39015042030430

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Between Jerusalem and Hebron by Yosef Kats Pdf

This book probes the story of the pioneers who came to the Etzion bloc in the 1940s and grappled with the isolation, the physical rigors, and the precarious political situation, to shape the future and jewish character of this region.

Author : Yaacov Shavit
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135178574

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Jabotinsky and the Revisionist Movement 1925-1948 by Yaacov Shavit Pdf

First published in 1988. The focus of this title, the nature and character of the Israeli political Right, gained intensive interest immediately after the Israeli elections of 1977. The author discusses this shift of political power from the Left to the Right as a profound political upheaval and discusses this alongside the prior Labour hegemony of the Yishuv. This book is separated into four parts: The territory and organisation of the right; The intellectual foundation of the right; Ideology, programme and political methods and Contradictory images.

Author : Jan Rybak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192897459

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Everyday Zionism in East-Central Europe by Jan Rybak Pdf

Everyday Zionism examines Zionist activism in East-Central Europe during the years of war, occupation, revolution, the collapse of empires, and the formation of nation states in the years 1914 to 1920. Against the backdrop of the Great War--its brutal aftermath and consequent violence--the day-to-day encounters between Zionist activists and the Jewish communities in the region gave the movement credibility, allowed it to win support and to establish itself as a leading force in Jewish political and social life for decades to come. Through activists' efforts, Zionism came to mean something new: Rather than being concerned with debates over Jewish nationhood and pioneering efforts in Palestine, it came to be about aiding starving populations, organizing soup-kitchens, establishing orphanages, schools, kindergartens, and hospitals, negotiating with the authorities, and leading self-defence against pogroms. Through this engagement Zionism evolved into a mass movement that attracted and inspired tens of thousands of Jews throughout the region. Everyday Zionism approaches the major European events of the period from the dual perspectives of Jewish communities and the Zionist activists on the ground, demonstrating how war, revolution, empire, and nation held very different meanings for people, depending on their local circumstances. Based on extensive archival research, the study shows how during the war and its aftermath East-Central Europe saw a large-scale nation-building project by Zionist activists who fought for and led their communities to shape for them a national future.