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Subject(s)

• Jewish National Fund—Photograph collections [Browse]
• Zionism—History—20th century [Browse]
• Zionism—History—Photograph collections [Browse]
• Jews—Palestine—History—20th century [Browse]
• Jews—Colonization—Palestine—Societies, etc—Photograph collections [Browse]
• Land settlement—Palestine—Photograph collections [Browse]
• Photography museums—Israel—Photograph collections [Browse]
• Palestine—History—1917-1948—Photograph collections [Browse]

Series

Routledge history of photography [More in this series]

Summary note

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The Guards and the Archons
• In and Out of the East: Travelers, Believers and Contested Truths
• Local Migration and the Jewish Settlement: Zionist Orientalism and Visual Economies
• Property of the People: Diasporic Bodies, Race and Land in Early Zionist Culture
• Finding Your Type: Inserting Body and Land into the JNF Photographic Archive
• Displaced and Absent Bodies: Marginalization and Exclusion in the PreState Archive
• Air Control : Hidden Photographic Archives and Colonial Regimes in the Middle East
• A Voice from the Greek Diaspora : Haim Shmuel Mizrahi and Inscriptions of a Desired Land
• Even People Were Hard to Find!: Picture Postcards and the Photographic Industry in Palestine, 1920s and Beyond
• Between New York and Jerusalem: Archives of Diaspora
• The 1948 War and Beyond: the Rise of the National Archive.

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ISBN

• 9781032182384 ((hardback))
• 1032182385
• 9781032187716 ((paperback))
• 1032187719

LCCN

2022047338

OCLC

1346615494

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