European Cultural Diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine, 1918-1948 : : Between Contention and Connection.

• Author: Sanchez Summerer, Karène.
• TeilnehmendeR: Zananiri, Sary.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (476 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
• Genesis of a Project
• The Power of a Cultural Paradigm for British Mandate Palestine and Christian Communities
• Precedents
• Looking at Cultural Diplomacy in a Proto-National Setting: Towards an Integrative Approach
• Overview of the Book
• Speaking to the Silences?
• Bibliography
• Turning the Tables? Arab Appropriation and Production of Cultural Diplomacy
• Introduction Part I Indigenising Cultural Diplomacy?
• Bibliography
• Orthodox Clubs and Associations: Cultural, Educational and Religious Networks Between Palestine and Transjordan, 1925-1950
• Orthodox Laity in the Emirate of Transjordan: Developing Diplomatic Ties in a Political Sphere in Reconfiguration
• Orthodox Laity During the Interwar Period: Regional Networks and Circulations
• Claims for Cultural and Educational Facilities in the New Capital
• Orthodox Laity and the Mandate Representative: Creating Political Ties
• The Orthodox Notables in Transjordan and the Development of the Arab Orthodox Nahda Association
• The Foundation of the Arab Orthodox Nahda Association: A Palestinian Connection?
• The Arab Orthodox Nahda Association: Creating a Communal Urban Presence
• Migration and Regional Circulation: Expanding the Arab Orthodox Imprint in Amman
• The 1940s and the Change of Diplomatic Paradigm
• From Sunday School to the Educational Association
• Sporting and Cultural Associations: Family Networks and Know-How
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• The Making Stage of the Modern Palestinian Arabic Novel in the Experiences of the udabāʼ Khalīl Baydas (1874-1949) and Iskandar al-Khūri al-BeitJāli (1890-1973)
• A Cultural Life Before Its Destruction
• Literature, Nahda and Russian Schools in Palestine.
• Khalīl Baydas and the Foundation of Norms of the Palestinian Novel
• Iskandar al-Khūri and Palestinian Literary Realism
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Sound Power: Musical Diplomacy Within the Franciscan Custody in Mandate Jerusalem
• St Saviour's Schola Cantorum
• Controlling and Patronising Orphans Through Music
• A Musico-Political Agenda
• Lama: From Cecilianism to the Nakba
• Reverberating Around a Changing City
• Bibliography
• The Melkite Community, Educational Policy and French Cultural Diplomacy: Archbishop Grigorios Hajjar and Mandatory Galilee
• Melkite Archives for a Melkite Cultural History
• The Archives of the Patriarchal Residence: Rabweh
• Library of the Monastery of Saint-Sauveur: Joun
• Archives of the Melkite Patriarchate: Damascus
• Educating the Melkites à la française
• Grigorios Hajjar: Bishop of the Arabs and Prince of Preachers
• Hajjar's Educational Policy in Galilee
• French in the Melkite Schools
• The Melkites Between Diplomacy and Cultural Diplomacy
• Grigorios Hajjar, an Agent of Cultural Diplomacy
• Bibliography
• Cultural Diplomacy in Mandatory Haifa: The Role of Christian Communities in the Cultural Transformation of the City
• The European Presence in Haifa
• Cultural Transformation in Haifa and the Role of Christian Communities
• Culture as a Tool for Consolidating Palestinian National Identity
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Showing and Telling: Cultural and Historical Entanglements under the Mandate
• Introduction Part II Colonial Hegemony, Arab Virtù and the Philosophy of History: Excavating, Exhibiting and Cultural Diplomacy in the Palestine Mandate
• Bibliography
• Palestinian Christians in the Mandate Department of Antiquities: History and Archaeology in a Colonial Space
• The Palestine Mandate Department of Antiquities
• Palestinians in the Department of Antiquities.
• Stephan Hanna Stephan and Na'im Shehadi Makhouly
• Stephan and Makhouly After 1948
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Between Diplomacy and Science: British Mandate Palestine and Its International Network of Archaeological Organisations, 1918-1938
• The Institutionalisation of Archaeology in Palestine in the Early 1920s
• The Establishment of a Transnational Archaeological Network in Palestine
• Excavation Methods and Archaeological Tourism as Diplomatic Tools
• Bibliography
• Competition in the Cultural Sector: Handicrafts and the Rise of the Trade Fair in British Mandate Palestine
• Artistic Missions
• The Trade Fair During the British Mandate
• Fair Competition
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Influencing the Other: European Private and Governmental Actors
• Introduction Part III European Soft Power and Christian Cultures at the Crossroads in Mandate Palestine
• Setting the Stage
• The Christians of Palestine, and the European Deployment of Hard and Soft Power
• European Christian Competition: Battling for Influence
• Palestine at the Crossroads
• Bibliography
• Diaspora-Building and Cultural Diplomacy: The Greek Community of Jerusalem in Late Ottoman Times and the Mandate
• The Establishment and Development of the Greek Diaspora Community
• The Jerusalem Greek Diaspora in the Mandate
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• The Palestine Society: Cultural Diplomacy and Scholarship in Late Tsarist Russia and the Soviet State
• Porphyrii Uspenskii and the First Russian Mission in Jerusalem
• Russian Institutions in Jerusalem After the Crimean War
• The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (1882-1914)
• The Palestine Society and Russian Mission During WWI and in the Interwar Period
• World War I
• The Russian Mission during World War I
• The Russian Palestine Society in the Interwar Period.
• The Question of the Properties: Contacts with Palestine
• Research Work of the Palestine Society, 1919-1930
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Continuities and Discontinuities in the Austrian Catholic Orient Mission to Palestine, 1915-1938
• Actors, Structures, and Goals in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
• From Turmoil to the Consolidation of the Republic-A New Beginning in Palestine?
• Authoritarian Austria and Palestine
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• A Coherent Inconsistency: Italian Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine, 1918-1938
• In Search of a Working Definition of Cultural Diplomacy
• The Italian Consulate in Jerusalem: A Short History
• Pre-Fascist Italy Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine
• "La Strada Delle Suore"
• The Italian Hospital (Building)
• Fascist Cultural Diplomacy in Palestine 1934-1939
• Radio Bari
• The Protector of the Jews
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine: Cultural Diplomacy and Outreach in the British Mandate Period
• The Latin Patriarch Barlassina: A Tireless Fighter
• The Latin Patriarchate's Cultural Policies During the Mandate
• The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine and Its Raison D'être
• The International Centre for the Protection of Catholic Interests in Palestine and Its Activities
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• A "Significant Swedish Outpost": The Swedish School and Arab Christians in Jerusalem, 1920-1930
• Background
• Early Mandate Years
• "Needed Among the Arabs" in Mandatory Palestine
• The Arab Teachers
• Parents and Children: Expectations and Attractions
• Why Did Arab Parents Send Their Children to the Swedish School?
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• French Cultural Efforts Towards Jerusalem's Arab Population in the Late British Mandate in Palestine
• Preliminaries.
• The Founding of a Centre de Culture Française de Jérusalem
• The Idea of a French Lycée (Secondary School)
• French Courses
• The Centre de Culture Française
• The Fate of the CCF
• Early Days
• WWII
• Conclusion: After WWII
• Bibliography
• Conclusions
• Cultural Affiliation and Identity Constructs Under the British Mandate for Palestine
• Bibliography
• Epilogue
• Education
• Newspapers
• Humanitarianism
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.