Cities in Conflict- A Visual Archive
Cities in Conflict - A Visual Archive is a project-in-process that collects materials related to the visual history of “mixed cities” in Israel. It began with research for the exhibition Haifa 1948. The project seeks to build a visual database that reveals the demographic, geographic, urban, social and other changes that took place in these cities. One example is the large wave of migration of Jews and Arabs from neighboring Arab countries to west Jerusalem, Haifa and Jaffa in the 1920s and 1930s, which modified the fabric of the “mixed cities.” The fundamental change in the cities occurred in the 1948 war, which brought destruction to many Palestinian settlements and extreme demographic change.
The term “ mixed cities” refers to a few archetypal cities that their past and present rooted in the national conflict: Haifa, a “mixed” city with a large Jewish and Palestinian population, which after the 1948 war became a city where Jews were in the majority and Palestinians in the minority; cities that until the late 1920s (Acre) and the middle of the 1930s (Jaffa) were “mixed” and grew to be predominantly Palestinian, and which after the 1948 war became cities with a Jewish majority; cities that until 1948 were “mixed” and in the 1950s and 1960s became Jewish cities (Safed, Tiberius, West Jerusalem); cities that were Palestinian until 1948 and became “mixed” after the war of 1948 (Ramla, Ludd); Palestinian towns that became Jewish after the 1948 war and over the last decades have become “mixed” cities (e.g.Beer Sheva). Primarily the archive collects visual materials that describe this history – photographs, placards and the like as well as other important documents from public bodies, private collectors, families and individuals.
To contact or send materials
To the exhibition Fawaran - Effervescence (Unrest) - Housing, Language, History - A New Generation in Jewish-Arab Cities
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