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An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives
about Jerusalem's social history. Overlooking the Border:
Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the
dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. The book's
starting point is the border that separated the city between Jordan
and Israel in 1948-1967, a lesser-known but significant period for
cultural representations of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic
fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal
narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street
plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the
city since the decline of the peace process and the second
intifada. What emerges is a portrayal of Jerusalem both as a local
place with unique rhythms and topography and as a setting for
national imaginaries and agendas with their attendant political and
social tensions. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets,
and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged
narratives about belonging and rights to place. Recollections of
local customs and lifeways in the mid-twentieth century coalesce
around residents' desire for stability amid periods of war,
dispossession, and relocation?? intertwining the mythical with the
mundane. Hercbergs begins by taking the reader to the historically
Arab neighborhoods of West Jerusalem, whose streets are a
battleground for competing historical narratives about the
Israeli-Arab War of 1948. She goes on to explore the connections
and tensions between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians living across
the border from one another in Musrara, a neighborhood straddling
West and East Jerusalem. The author rounds out the monograph with a
semiotic analysis of contemporary tourism and architectural
ventures that are entrenching ethno-national separation in the
post-Oslo period. These rhetorical expressions illuminate what it
means to be a ??erusalemite in the context of the city's fraught
history. Overlooking the Border examines the social and geographic
significance of borders for residents' sense of self, place, and
community, and for representations of the city both locally and
abroad. It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced
undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies,
history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
An ethnographic tapestry of personal and institutional narratives
about Jerusalem's social history. Overlooking the Border:
Narratives of a Divided Jerusalem by Dana Hercbergs continues the
dialogue surrounding the social history of Jerusalem. The book's
starting point is the border that separated the city between Jordan
and Israel in 1948-1967, a lesser-known but significant period for
cultural representations of Jerusalem. Based on ethnographic
fieldwork, the book juxtaposes Israeli and Palestinian personal
narratives about the past with contemporary museum exhibits, street
plaques, tourism, and real estate projects that are reshaping the
city since the decline of the peace process and the second
intifada. What emerges is a portrayal of Jerusalem both as a local
place with unique rhythms and topography and as a setting for
national imaginaries and agendas with their attendant political and
social tensions. As sites of memory, Jerusalem's homes, streets,
and natural areas form the setting for emotionally charged
narratives about belonging and rights to place. Recollections of
local customs and lifeways in the mid-twentieth century coalesce
around residents' desire for stability amid periods of war,
dispossession, and relocation?? intertwining the mythical with the
mundane. Hercbergs begins by taking the reader to the historically
Arab neighborhoods of West Jerusalem, whose streets are a
battleground for competing historical narratives about the
Israeli-Arab War of 1948. She goes on to explore the connections
and tensions between Mizrahi Jews and Palestinians living across
the border from one another in Musrara, a neighborhood straddling
West and East Jerusalem. The author rounds out the monograph with a
semiotic analysis of contemporary tourism and architectural
ventures that are entrenching ethno-national separation in the
post-Oslo period. These rhetorical expressions illuminate what it
means to be a ??erusalemite in the context of the city's fraught
history. Overlooking the Border examines the social and geographic
significance of borders for residents' sense of self, place, and
community, and for representations of the city both locally and
abroad. It is certain to be of value to scholars and advanced
undergraduate and graduate students of Middle Eastern studies,
history, urban ethnography, and Israeli and Jewish studies.
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