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Year of the locust
Year of the Locust captures in page-turning detail the end of the Ottoman world and a pivotal moment in Palestinian history. In the diaries of Ihsan Hasan al-Turjman (1893–1917), the first ordinary recruit to describe World War I from the Arab side, we follow the misadventures of an Ottoman soldier stationed in Jerusalem. There he occupied himself by dreaming about his future and using family connections to avoid being sent to the Suez. His diaries draw a unique picture of daily life in the besieged city, bringing into sharp focus its communitarian alleys and obliterated neighborhoods, the ongoing political debates, and, most vividly, the voices from its streets—soldiers, peddlers, prostitutes, and vagabonds. Salim Tamari's indispensable introduction places the diary in its local, regional, and imperial contexts while deftly revising conventional wisdom on the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire.
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NEGOTIATING OTTOMANISM IN TIMES OF WAR: JERUSALEM DURING WORLD WAR I THROUGH THE EYES OF A LOCAL MUSLIM RESIDENT
In August 1915, in the midst of World War I, a young Muslim resident of Jerusalem wrote the following in his diary:
Will I go to protect my country [waṭanī]? I am not an Ottoman, only in name, but a citizen of the world [muwaṭani al-ʿālam] . . . Had the state [dawla] treated me as part of it, it would have been worthwhile for me to give my life to it. However, since the country does not treat me in such way, it is not worthwhile for me to give my blood to the Turkish state [al-dawla al-Turkiyya]. I will happily go [to fight in Egypt?] but not as an Ottoman soldier . . .
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Jerusalem in 1948: A Contemporary Perspective
The 1948 war between Jews and Palestinians is still the subject of heated debate. This article attempts to describe the events of the war, as experienced in real time by Jewish members of that generation, using letters and diaries written by civilians and fighters, men and women, during the months from November 29, 1947, until the second ceasefire in late July 1948. These materials describe how Jews in Jerusalem under siege felt, reacted, and perceived what they were going through. The article highlights the atmosphere in the street, reactions to the growing number of casualties, varied attitudes to the Palestinian enemy, the fragility of Jewish society and social tensions, different gender perceptions of women and their roles in the war, and the responses of Holocaust survivors to the war. It is thus a social and cultural history of the war of 1948.
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