Nature’s Rage and Nation-Building: The 1927 Earthquake in Palestine
Palestine of the 1920s was a country in transformation. Arabs and Jews were striving to build their separate national communities on the same land amid a bitter rivalry between them, under a recently installed colonial government that had its own geostrategic interests. The mighty earthquake that in...
| Publié dans: | Die Welt des Islams |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2022
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Die Welt des Islams
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| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
yishuv
B Tel Aviv B Earthquake B Nablus B Zionism B Mandate B Palestine |
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| Résumé: | Palestine of the 1920s was a country in transformation. Arabs and Jews were striving to build their separate national communities on the same land amid a bitter rivalry between them, under a recently installed colonial government that had its own geostrategic interests. The mighty earthquake that inflicted death and devastation on the country in July 1927 confronted all of these actors at an early stage of advancing their respective agendas, and presented a serious test to all of them. The article examines the quake’s impact on the Palestinians, the dual Jewish community (Zionist and “old yishuv”), Arab-Jewish relations, and the country’s British imperial administration, and scrutinizes their respective handling of the challenge. Employing the natural disaster as a prism, it sheds a focused light on the dilemmas and choices of these actors at that early phase of Palestine’s mandatory history |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0607 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Islams
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700607-61040011 |