Hillel Cohen - Writing "Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1929"

Writing "Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1929"
Hillel Cohen, Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies: The Middle East Historian in Times of Conflict: Writing "Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1929"
In his ground-breaking book, Year Zero, Professor Hillel Cohen, Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, examines the violent riots that took place in Palestine in 1929, with Arab attacks on Jews and Jewish attacks on Arab. Arguing that the events of that year and - more importantly - the memory of the violence and the political uses of that memory, by Jews and Arabs, constitute a turning point in the history of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, with consequences that linger to this day.
Professor Cohen’s lecture will ask: What does it mean to write a book about those events while living and teaching in the midst of the ongoing conflict, as a professor of Middle East Studies at an Israeli university with a specialization in the history of Zionism and the history of Palestinians? How do the raging political events of the contemporary moment affect the work of the historian?
Sponsored by: Jewish Studies Program
hursday, July 7, 2016

[@nancikuba42]

I really want to know more about the 1929, but the rest turned out more of what our moral responsibility should strive for. I’ll have to see what happened afterwards. This because of 2/7/23 & the war going on in Gaza

[@nancikuba42]

I meant 10/7/23

[@matthewfranklin8379]

The writer has responsibilities. The reader has responsibilities too. This is why history is constantly re-written - because perceptions change and need to be acknowledged.

[@1czechit1]

The 1834 looting of Safed (Hebrew: ביזת צפת בשנת תקצ"ד, "Plunder of Safed, 5594 AM") was prolonged attack against the Jewish community of Safed, Ottoman Empire, during the 1834 Peasants' Revolt. It began on Sunday June 15 (7 Sivan), the day after the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, and lasted for the next 33 days

[@LuisDiuk]

1929 this is not a lecture about the 1929 events, it's a moralisct lecture of why to blame Israel again

[@1czechit1]

1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the 1513-17 Ottoman-Mamluk War, when Turkish Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Palestine. The massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred to as a pogrom.[1]