A Shared Elegy presents two pairs of photographers connected by family ties. Osamu James Nakagawa and his uncle, Takayuki Ogawa, and Elijah Gowin and his father, Emmet Gowin, present unique but overlapping visions recording family histories. Nakagawa, like his uncle, Ogawa, grew up in Japan and draws upon his country's traditions and the practice of honoring elders; family heritage and home in Virginia have inspired the Gowins to make photographs that depict the intimate and hallowed nature of the world. These photographs compel us to reflect and consider our place in the cycle of life. A collaboration between the Grunwald Gallery and the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, this exhibition catalogue juxtaposes rich imagery with discussions about the artists and their aesthetic approaches to photography.

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Perspectives on Israel Studies)

Arts & Photography

Dowty, Alan

Individual Artists

Indiana University Press

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. He demonstrates that existing Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European and shares evidence of overwhelming hostility to foreigners from European lands. He shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the inconvenient hostility of the existing population. Dowty's thorough research reveals how events that occurred over 125 years ago shaped the implacable conflict that dominates the Middle East today.

History

Americas

Review\n"None of the other published material on this topic has canvassed and assessed as widely as Alan Dowty has done in this work. This is an original narrative and a compellingly told story."―Donna Robinson Divine, author of Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine\n"A well-written, well-balanced book that takes account of both Jewish and Arab attitudes toward Jewish settlement in Palestine prior to the First World War."―Anita Shapira, author of Israel: A History\n"Dowty's book will serve as an accessible and important work in the field of the history of the Yishuv during the Ottoman period and the early stages of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The combination of attention to detail and a broad overview means that this work will be useful to scholars and students for years to come, and the author deserves every praise for this."―Tamir Karkason, H-Judaic\n"A seminal work of impeccable and meticulous scholarship, Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide by Professor Alan Dowty must be considered a core addition to community, college and university library Turkish, Palestinian, and Israeli history collections and supplemental studies curriculums."―MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW\n"The rigorous research and scholarly perspective of Alan Dowty's Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine shines a light on issues of the Arab-Israel conflict that others have overlooked."―Jewish Press.com\n"Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine is a study rich with insight and information that is skillfully put into a broader context. You will finish the book with a wealth of knowledge about the past and greater insight into the present."―Dinah Rokach, HaShomer\nWhen did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. He demonstrates that existing Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European and shares evidence of overwhelming hostility to foreigners from European lands. He shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the inconvenient hostility of the existing population. Dowty's thorough research reveals how events that occurred over 125 years ago shaped the implacable conflict that dominates the Middle East today.

Fashioning a working political structure in Israel that will bring together all aspects of society, from Jews to Arabs, ultra-Orthodox to assertively secular, has never been easy. However, two developments have intensified this challenge: demographic changes have sharpened the differences between the groups; and open challenges of legitimacy have undermined the previous de facto acceptance of pluralism. There has been no strong civic framework of Israeliness to replace Zionism as a shared identity that would override more parochial identities and interests. Added to these pressures are the collapse of the peace process in late 2000 and the influence of global developments on the Arab-Israel conflict and on Israeli domestic society.
In this volume, twelve noted scholars of Israel present authoritative and analytic overviews of these important issues. The ability of the Israeli political system to bridge differences through a Jewish tradition of power-sharing has, in the past, managed to overcome enormous divisions, at least within the Jewish sector. Economic progress and globalization have brought Israel closer to other developed societies in many respects, while exposing Israel to pressures associated with these trends. Closer analysis of these critical issues reveals that there are also positive forces at work as the nation seeks a broader synthesis of its Jewish legacy and universal liberal values.

Critical Issues in Israeli Society (Praeger Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies)

Middle East

Praeger

Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement (Twentieth Century Fund Report)

Looks at how governments have dealt with emigration and immigration in the past, assesses the impact of such government control, and recommends a policy of free movement around the world

Yale University Press

Looks at how governments have dealt with emigration and immigration in the past, assesses the impact of such government control, and recommends a policy of free movement around the world

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Middle East Crisis: U. S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973

Politics & Government

Univ. Of California Pr.

The Jewish State: A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface

As the fiftieth anniversary of Israeli statehood approaches, along with the commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the World Zionist Organization, the question of what is meant by a "Jewish" state is particularly timely. Alan Dowty takes on that question in a book that is admirable for its clarity and its comprehensive interpretation of the historical roots and contemporary functioning of Israel. Israeli nationhood, democracy, and politics did not unfold in a social or political vacuum, but developed from power-sharing practices in pre-state Jewish communities in Palestine and in Eastern Europe. Dowty elucidates the broad cluster of cultural, historical, and ideological tenets which came to comprise Israel's contemporary political system. He demonstrates that such tenets were not arbitrary but in fact developed logically from Jewish political habits and the circumstances of time. Dowty illustrates how these traditions are balanced with those of ideology and modernization, and he provides an integrated, sophisticated analysis of the Israeli nation's formation and present state. Dowty also proposes thoughtful answers to puzzles regarding the strengths and weaknesses of Israeli democracy in responding to the challenges of communal divisions, religious contention, the country's non-Jewish minority, and accommodation with the Palestinians. The Jewish State will be invaluable for anyone looking for that one book that gives an intelligent overview of both Israel today and of its origins.

Religion & Spirituality

Judaism

University of California Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973

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Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Perspectives on Israel Studies)

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Perspectives on Israel Studies)

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Perspectives on Israel Studies)

Critical Issues in Israeli Society (Praeger Series on Jewish and Israeli Studies)

Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement (Twentieth Century Fund Report)

Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on Freedom of Movement (Twentieth Century Fund Report)

Middle East Crisis: U. S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973

The Jewish State: A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface

The Jewish State: A Century Later, Updated With a New Preface

Middle East Crisis: U.S. Decision-Making in 1958, 1970, and 1973