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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] Palestine in the Era of the British Mandate – Conflicting Interpretations of Places, Objects and Symbols
DESCRIPTION:In late Ottoman times and during the British Mandate era, Palestine was the focus and object of different imperial ambitions as well as national and religious aspirations. With numerous actors asserting their claims over Palestine, conflicting interpretations of the history of the land, reaching back to antiquity, and competing narratives of belonging were imagined and constructed, strengthening the formation of collective identities. Most, if not all these ambitions and aspirations were focused on Jerusalem. Its contested sacred places were not only religious symbols but were also increasingly transformed into political icons for the competing Zionist and Palestinian national movements, while the British considered the old city as an “open-air museum”. In Jerusalem and other cities, urban space and its symbols were rapidly mobilized by both Zionists and Palestinians fostering their religious and nationalist claims. While many places, objects and symbols had been contested for centuries, they became increasingly politicized and their histories re‐written during the British Mandate. In that time, Palestinian cities underwent rapid processes of urbanisation, which were manifested in their spatial expansion, population growth as well as in the changing religious and ethnic composition of their inhabitants. These changes, in combination with the escalating discourse over the ownership of the city as site of political and cultural engagement, generated different forms of competition over space. Urban sites like squares, archaeological digs, industrial and commercial developments as well as cultural arenas became contested from a multiplicity of perspectives, which still shape the understanding of relations between Arabs and Jews in contemporary Israel and Palestine. This session concentrates on the conflictive history of urban spaces and sacred places in Palestine during the British Mandate, looking at places, objects, and symbols through the lenses of their contestation.
Der Beitrag Palestine in the Era of the British Mandate – Conflicting Interpretations of Places, Objects and Symbols erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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