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A City in Fragments
Urban Text in Modern Jerusalem
Taschenbuch von Yair Wallach
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
"For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to 1948 Jerusalem was a city of increasingly contradictory trajectories, as Ottoman rulers, British colonial officials, Arab nationalists, Zionist activists, and Orthodox Jews negotiated its future. Text in Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages became a key means to organize space, society, and subjectivity. Wallach reassembles these written fragments to reveal how the logics of state and capital shaped the modern city"--
"For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to 1948 Jerusalem was a city of increasingly contradictory trajectories, as Ottoman rulers, British colonial officials, Arab nationalists, Zionist activists, and Orthodox Jews negotiated its future. Text in Hebrew, Arabic, and other languages became a key means to organize space, society, and subjectivity. Wallach reassembles these written fragments to reveal how the logics of state and capital shaped the modern city"--
Über den Autor
Yair Wallach is Senior Lecturer in Israeli Studies at SOAS, University of London.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction

1. Stone: Arabic in the Age of Ottomanism

2. Dog: The Zionification of Hebrew

3. Gold: Text and Value

4. Paper: Banknotes and the Colonial Dictionary

5. Ceramic: The British Street-Naming Campaign

6. Wall: Hebrew Graffiti on the Western Wall

7. Cloth: The Banners of Nabi Musa

8. Cardboard: Visiting Cards and Identification Papers

Conclusion
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503611139
ISBN-10: 1503611132
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wallach, Yair
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 226 x 165 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Yair Wallach
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
Artikel-ID: 115389929
Über den Autor
Yair Wallach is Senior Lecturer in Israeli Studies at SOAS, University of London.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction

1. Stone: Arabic in the Age of Ottomanism

2. Dog: The Zionification of Hebrew

3. Gold: Text and Value

4. Paper: Banknotes and the Colonial Dictionary

5. Ceramic: The British Street-Naming Campaign

6. Wall: Hebrew Graffiti on the Western Wall

7. Cloth: The Banners of Nabi Musa

8. Cardboard: Visiting Cards and Identification Papers

Conclusion
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503611139
ISBN-10: 1503611132
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wallach, Yair
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 226 x 165 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Yair Wallach
Erscheinungsdatum: 30.06.2020
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
Artikel-ID: 115389929
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