1st Edition
Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement
Introduction: The Guards and the Archons
Part 1. Photography in the “Holy Land” Before Zionism: Biblical Landscapes in Modernity
Chapter 1. In and Out of the East: Travelers, Believers and Contested Truths
Chapter 2. Local Migration and the Jewish Settlement: Zionist Orientalism and Visual Economies
Part 2. Between Body and Land: The Archival Machinery of the Jewish National Fund
Chapter 3. “Property of the People”: Diasporic Bodies, Race and Land in Early Zionist Culture
Chapter 4: Finding Your Type: Inserting Body and Land into the JNF Photographic Archive
Chapter 5. Displaced and Absent Bodies: Marginalization and Exclusion in the Pre-State Archive
Part 3. Archival Constellations: Private, Institutional and Latent Systems in Palestine and the Jewish World
Chapter 6. “Air Control”: Hidden Photographic Archives and Colonial Regimes in the Middle East
Chapter 7. “A Voice from the Greek Diaspora” Haim Shmuel Mizrahi and Inscriptions of a Desired Land
7.1. “Even People Were Hard to Find!”: Picture Postcards and the Photographic Industry in Palestine, 1920s and Beyond
Chapter 8. Postscipt: Between New York and Jerusalem: Archives of Diaspora
Epilogue. The 1948 War and Beyond: the Rise of the National Archive
Index
Biography
Rotem Rozental is a photo-historian, curator, writer and the Executive Director of the LA Center for Photography, Lecturer at University of Southern California and Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Between 2016 and 2022, she served as Chief Curator and Senior Director of Arts and Culture at American Jewish University, where she was also the Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and the Director of The Institute for Jewish Creativity.
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