Reapproaching Borders

Sandy Sufian is assistant professor of medical humanities and history at the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine.Mark LeVine is professor of history at University of California-Irvine.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Investigating Borders in the case of Palestine/IsraelPart 2 Narrating the PastChapter 3 Filling a Gap in the Chronology: What Archaeology is Revealing about the Ottoman Past in IsraelChapter 4 Remembering Jewish-Arab Contact and ConflictChapter 5 Re-Approaching the Borders of Nazareth (1948-1956): Israel's Control of an all-Arab CityPart 6 Constructing Healthy Identities and LandscapesChapter 7 Defining National Medical Borders: Medical Terminology and the Making of Hebrew MedicineChapter 8 Contested Bodies: Medicine, Public Health, and the Mass Immigration to IsraelChapter 9 Seeing the "Holy Land" with New Eyes: Undocumented Labor Migration, Reproductive Health, and the Fluctuating Borders of the Israeli National BodyChapter 10 Masculinity as a Relational Mode: Palestinian Working-class Gender Ideologies and Categorical Boundaries in a Jewish-Palestinian Mixed TownChapter 11 From Water Abundance to Water Scarcity (1936-1959): A 'fluid' history of Jewish subjectivity in Historic Palestine and IsraelPart 12 Shaping Citizens and Space in Palestine/IsraelChapter 13 Seizing Locality in JerusalemChapter 14 Present and Absent: Historical Invention and the Politics of Place in Contemporary JerusalemChapter 15 Framing the Borders of Justice: Shari'a Courts in Israel and the Conflict Between Secular Ideology and Islamic LawChapter 16 Modernity and its Mirror: Three Views of Jewish-Palestinian Interaction in Jaffa and Tel AvivChapter 17 Concluding Remarks

This collection brings together exciting new work by a group of innovative younger scholars who are at the cutting edge of research on the modern history of Palestine, Israel and Zionism. Their explorations of how territorial and ethnic as well as intellectual boundaries in a variety of domains have been constructed and maintained—but also frequently crossed—help open up promising new ways of thinking about Arab-Jewish relations and interactions.