Colonial Jerusalem: The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

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Colonial Jerusalem Contemporary Issues in the Middle East Mehran Kamrava and Carol Fadda-Conrey, Series Advisers Other titles from Contemporary Issues in the Middle East Improbable Women: Five Who Explored the Middle East William Woods Cotterman Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn Amira El-Zein Living in Romantic Baghdad: An American Memoir of Teaching and Travel in Iraq, 1924–1947 Ida Donges Staudt; John Joseph, ed. Making Do in Damascus: Navigating a Generation of Change in Family and Work Sally K. Gallagher The Perils of Joy: Contesting Mulid Festivals in Contemporary Egypt Samuli Schielke Reading Arabia: British Orientalism in the Age of Mass Publication, 1880–1930 Andrew C. Long Veiled Employment: Islamism and the Political Economy of Women’s Employment in Iran Roksana Bahramitash and Hadi Salehi Esfahani, eds. We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar, eds. COLONIAL JERUSALEM The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948–2012 THOMAS PHILIP ABOWD Syracuse University Press Copyright © 2014 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2014 14 15 16 17 18 19 6 5 4 3 2 1 All photographs courtesy of Thomas Philip Abowd unless otherwise indicated. Parts of chapter 5 originally appeared as “National Boundaries, Colonized Spaces: The Gendered Politics of Residential Life in Contemporary Jerusalem,” Anthropological Quarterly (Fall 2007): 1027–1064. Reprinted with permission. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3348-8 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5261-8 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Abowd, Thomas Philip, 1967– author. Colonial Jerusalem : the spatial construction of identity and difference in a city of myth, 1948–2012 / Thomas Philip Abowd. — First edition. pages cm. — (Contemporary issues in the Middle East) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3348-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5261-8 (ebook) 1. Jerusalem— History—20th century. 2. Jerusalem—History—21st century. 3. Jerusalem—Ethnic relations— History—20th century. 4. Jerusalem—Ethnic relations—History—21st century. 5. Jerusalem—Politics and government—20th century. 6. Jerusalem—Politics and government—21st century. 7. Palestinian Arabs—Jerusalem—Social conditions—20th century. 8. Palestinian Arabs—Jerusalem—Social conditions— 21st century. 9. Jews—Jerusalem—History—20th century. 10. Jews—Jerusalem—History— 21st century. 11. Arab-Israeli conflict—Jerusalem—Influence. I. Title. DS109.93.A64 2014 956.94'4205—dc23 2014011261 Manufactured in the United States of America To my family and to all those in Palestine/Israel who were for me what anthropologists like to call “essential kin” Thomas philip Abowd teaches in the Department of Anthropology and in the Arabic Program at Tufts University. He received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University. He has been involved for two decades in scholarly projects related to Palestine, Israel, and the Middle East and is the recipient of awards from the Fulbright Hays, the Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA), the Palestinian American Research Center, and the Social Science Research Council. There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. And just as such a document is not free of barbarism, barbarism taints also the manner in which it was transmitted from one owner to another. —Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History ...