Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town
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English - February 23, 2018 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15 MB - ★★★★★ - 141 ratingsJudaism Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture interview jewish academic debate israel longform radio scholars Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dr. Danna Piroyansky, author of Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town 1948-1967, discusses the very Israeli concept of ‘mixed cities’ – the result of government-sanctioned mixing of Jewish and Arab populations.
How did it come about in Ramle, a town in the south-eastern coastal plain that was 100 percent Arab Palestinian up until the 1948 War of Independence, and was subsequently populated with Jewish immigrants?
This episode originally aired Feb. 21, 2015.