Pre State Photographic Archives And The Zionist Movement

Author : Rotem Rozental
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : 44,5 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 : 48,9 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 : 48,6 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 : 43,8 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 : 50,7 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 study of the Zionist movement in Germany, Britain, and the United States recognizes 'Western Zionism' as a distinctive force. From the First World War until the rise of Hitler, the Zionist movement encouraged Jews to celebrate aspects of a reborn Jewish nationality and sovereignty in Palestine, while at the same time acknowledging that their members would mostly 'stay put' and strive toward acculturation in their current homelands. The growth of a Zionist consciousness among Western Jews is juxtaposed with the problematic nurturing of the movement's institutions, as Zionism was consumed increasingly by fundraising. In the 1930s, Zionist images assumed a progressively greater share of secular Jewish identity, and Zionism became normalized in the social landscape of Western Jewry, but the organization faltered in translating its popularity into a means of 'saving the Jews' and 'building up' the national home in Palestine.

Author : Erica B. Simmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : 44,6 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 : Bejtullah D. Destani
Publisher : Cambridge Archive Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1840970502

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The Zionist Movement and the Foundation of Israel 1839-1950 by Bejtullah D. Destani Pdf

Documents from the British National Archives tracing the origins and development of the Zionist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : Esther Meir-Glitzenstein
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0714655791

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Zionism in an Arab Country by Esther Meir-Glitzenstein Pdf

This book explores the relations between the Zionist establishment in Israel, and the Jewish community in Iraq.

Author : Menahem Kaufman
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : 54,7 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 : 48,6 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 : 55,7 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 : Leni Sonnenfeld
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 030010605X

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Eyes of Memory by Leni Sonnenfeld Pdf

Two pioneering photojournalists present stunning photographs that document key moments in the experiences of the Jewish people from 1933 to the present Like most Jews living in Berlin, Herbert Sonnenfeld lost his job in 1933. He decided to visit Palestine, where he photographed the poor refugees in that undeveloped country. When he returned to Berlin, his pictures appeared in a Zionist newspaper, and his career in photojournalism was launched. His wife, Leni, soon became his assistant and then a photographer in her own right. After the couple came to America in 1939, they were able to travel farther afield, and they spent the rest of their lives taking pictures of Jewish communities around the world. This mesmerizing book is a selection of their best photographs. The images tell the story of Jewish life in prewar Berlin; of Youth Aliyah, a Palestine emigration program; and of Jewish communities from Iran to Morocco to Spain. Recording the arrival in Israel of Jews from all over the Diaspora, the Sonnenfelds document the creation and evolution of the Israeli nation. These haunting photographs, along with Leni Sonnenfeld's moving reminiscences, are a testament to the Jewish experience in the twentieth century.