Palestinian past, Zionist future: vocabularies of tourism in Mandate Palestine

Daam, Jasmin

doi:10.1080/20581831.2023.2221086

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“…The couple, as well as senior members of their substantial entourage, were guests at a lunch hosted by Sir John Hathorn Hall, 41 the chief secretary of the Mandate administration, along with Ruhi Bey Abdul-Hadi, chief Arab officer to the British government and one of the less politically activist members of his well-known family. 42 The Nawab's involvement with the Islamic networks of the Indian national movement did not prevent him from using the luxurious King David Hotel rather than the struggling Palace Hotel, owned by the Supreme Muslim Council, 43 as a base during his sojourn in Jerusalem and excursion to the shrine of Nabi Musa, the Dead Sea, and Jericho. 44 Despite not opting for their hospitality, during the visit, the Nawab did announce a donation of 15,000 rupees (around $5,680 at the time, or over $120,000 today) to the Supreme Muslim Council for the upkeep of the al-Aqsa Mosque "and other waqf properties."…”

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"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

Irving

2023

Mashriq & Mahjar

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In press coverage of the 1927 earthquake in Palestine, frequent mention is made of the deaths of three women at the Winter Palace Hotel in Jericho. That the three were from British-occupied India apparently rendered them unusual enough to be noted by a journalist, whose observation was reproduced around the world. This article draws on newspapers, official documents and secondary literatures on the hajj, tourism and the British Empire to consider the history of South Asian travellers to Palestine and relationships between colonialism and travel in the interwar period. One of the three women was Lady Abdul Rauf, the wife of a retired High Court judge and veteran Indian Muslim nationalist campaigner, Sir Syed Abdul Rauf. The couple had departed Bombay in April 1927 for the hajj to Mecca and Medina, but extended their trip to include Jericho. This was not unusual; the Indian Hospice in the Old City of Jerusalem attests to a long history of Indian visitors to Palestine. This paper, however, locates the ill-fated presence of Lady Abdul Rauf and her companions in the changing nature of Indian travel in the region, as religious pilgrimage to Jerusalem combined with politics and tourism, and as changing infrastructures of capitalism and colonialism shifted how Indian visitors experienced Palestine.

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Section: Traveling To Palestinementioning

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"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

Irving

2023

Mashriq & Mahjar

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Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality

Wallach

2023

Mashriq & Mahjar

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This article looks at Ashkenazi-operated hotels in Tiberias, Beirut, Jerusalem, Jaffa, Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere, in the late Ottoman period and under British rule, to consider the confusing ambiguities that these stories reveal. Ashkenazi presence in Palestine is typically understood in terms of either the pious, zealot pilgrims, or the nationalist settlers. And yet the story of the hotel owners and operators could also fit into a different category, that of migrants, who sought to integrate within existing social, economic, and political structures. The tourism and hospitality industry, which relied on flows of people across borders and on a diverse customer-base, was to some degree at odds with the segregation associated with Zionist Yishuv. Such stories, which have been forgotten and erased by the history of Palestine in the twentieth century, prompt us to rethink our understanding of Ashkenazi history in the region.

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Palestinian past, Zionist future: vocabularies of tourism in Mandate Palestine

Cited by 2 publications

References 21 publications

"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

"Indian Lady Tourists Killed at Jericho": Tourism, Pilgrimage and South-South relations in Interwar Palestine

Tourist, Pilgrim, Migrant, Settler: Rethinking the Modern History of Ashkenazim in the Levant Through Sites of Hospitality

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