Settling Hebron - Jewish Fundamentalism in a Palestinian City

In Settling Hebron, Tamara Neuman presents the first critical ethnography of the Jewish settler populations in Kiryat Arba and the adjacent Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Hebron, considered by many Israelis as the most "ideological" of settlements.

List of contents

Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Terms

Introduction

Chapter 1. Orientations

Chapter 2. Between Legality and Illegality

Chapter 3. Motherhood and Property Takeover

Chapter 4. Spaces of the Everyday

Chapter 5. Religious Violence

Chapter 6. Lost Tribes and the Quest for Origins

Conclusion: Unsettling Settlers

Notes

References

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Tamara Neuman is a Research Fellow at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.

Summary

In Settling Hebron, Tamara Neuman presents the first critical ethnography of the Jewish settler populations in Kiryat Arba and the adjacent Jewish Quarter in the Old City of Hebron, considered by many Israelis as the most "ideological" of settlements.

Product details

• Authors: Tamara Neuman
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780812249958
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4995-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence; Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology