{"product_id":"mountain-against-the-sea-9780520251298","title":"Mountain against the Sea","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers eleven vignettes of Palestine's cultural life in the first half of the twentieth century. This book presents the memoirs, diaries, letters, and other writings of six Jerusalem intellectuals whose lives spanned the period of 1918-1948: a musician, a teacher, a former aristocrat, a doctor, a Bolshevik revolutionary, and a Jewish novelist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Essay after essay is enriched with arresting descriptions, illuminating anecdotes and intriguing details... An erudite and original contribution to the history of the Middle East and an inspiring and enjoyable piece of scholarship.\" Times Higher Ed Supp (Thes) \"A strong contribution to scholarship on Jerusalem in English.\" Middle East Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations Acknowledgments  1. Introduction: Palestine's Conflictual Modernity 2. The Mountain against the Sea? Cultural Wars of the Eastern Mediterranean 3. From Emma Bovary to Hasan al-Banna: Small Towns and Social Control 4. Bourgeois Nostalgia and the Abandoned City 5. A Musician's Lot: The Jawhariyyeh Memoirs as a Key to Jerusalem's Early Modernity 6. Lepers, Lunatics, and Saints: The Nativist Ethnography of Tawfiq Canaan and His Circle 7. Sultana and Khalil: The Origins of Romantic Love in Palestine 8. The Last Feudal Lord 9. Ishaq Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine 10. The Enigmatic Bolshevik from the Holy City 11. The Vagabond Cafe and Jerusalem's Prince of Idleness  Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402829668695,"sku":"9780520251298","price":67.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mountain-against-the-sea-9780520251298","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}