Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956

by Adel Manna

Overview

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Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right. 

The Institute for Palestine Studies extends our sincere appreciation to Samir Abdulhadi for his generous support of the translation and publication of this book.
Translation by Jenab Tutunji. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520389366
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/13/2022
Series:	New Directions in Palestinian Studies , #6
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Adel Manna is a historian who specializes in the history of Palestine. He is the author and editor of several books on Ottoman Palestinian history published in Arabic in Beirut including The Palestinians in the Twentieth Century: A View from Within and Society and Administration in Jerusalem during the Middle Ottoman Period. 

Table of Contents

Foreword vii

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xix

Introduction 1

1 Al-Nakba and Its Many Meanings in 1948 25

2 Completing the Occupation of Galilee-Operation Hiram 60

3 The Arab Communists: Between the Nakba and Independence 93

4 Forced Migration Continues After the Cannons Fall Silent 128

5 Stories About Individuals and Villages 163

6 The Struggle to Remain: Between Politics and the Judiciary 198

7 The Parliamentary Elections and Political Behavior 232

Epilogue 266

Appendices 275

Notes 289

Bibliography 335

Index 349