Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2024
Titel der Quelle:
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
56,3 (2024) 424-445
Schlagwort(e):
Riots
;
Palestinian Arabs History
;
Ethnic neighborhoods
;
Jewish-Arab relations
;
Mizrahim Social conditions 20th century
;
Wadi Salib (Haifa, Israel)
;
Israel Ethnic relations
Kurzfassung:
This article examines the Wadi Salib protest that erupted in Haifa in the summer of 1959 against the background of the history of the children in the neighborhood during the 1950s. One of the main causes of the protest, which was led by Jewish migrants from Morocco, was the educational and social condition of the children in Wadi Salib. During the Mandate period, Wadi Salib and the surrounding areas had already emerged as a focus of poverty and deprivation. Among other aspects, the article examines the changes that occurred in the character of the neighborhood after 1948 and the essence of Wadi Salib, with its street steps, as a liminal space between downtown Haifa and the Hadar HaCarmel neighborhood. The liminal character of Wadi Salib was manifested in its status as an impoverished migrant area, in the participation of children in the protest of the summer of 1959, and in the educational, social, and health problems that faced the children. This character was also manifested in the manner in which the children of Wadi Salib challenged the physical and symbolic boundaries that enclosed the neighborhood.
DOI:
10.1017/S002074382400093X
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