Tag: Mandatory

Free Download Your Presence Is Mandatory: A Novel by Sasha Vasilyuk
English | April 23, 2024 | ISBN: 1639731539 | True EPUB | 336 pages | 4.9 MB
A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a World War II veteran with a secret that could land him in the Gulag, and his family who are forced to live in the shadow of all he has not told them.

Free Download Anat Kidron, "The Jewish Community of Acre in Mandatory Palestine: The Story of a Forgotten Community"
English | ISBN: 3111252922 | 2024 | 258 pages | EPUB, PDF | 9 MB + 77 MB
For a brief moment in the history of Acre, there was a Hebrew community that linked old and new settlements. It had a national-Zionist orientation and consisted of Jews of local and Mizrachic origin. This community is no longer visible in the cityscape, and its history has disappeared from the collective Zionist memory – but it played a role in building the Jewish national community in Palestine. The unusual history of Acre shows how it succeeded in attracting new, nationalist settlers.

Free Download Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009430378 | 361 Pages | PDF | 3.4 MB
Mandatory Madness offers a fresh new perspective on a pivotal period in the history of modern Palestine, by putting mental illness and the psychiatric encounters it engendered at the heart of the story. Through a careful and creative reading of a wide range of archival and published material in English, Arabic, and Hebrew, Chris Sandal-Wilson reveals how a range of actors responded to mental illness in the decades before 1948. Rather than a concern of European Jewish psychiatric experts alone, questions around the causes, nature, and treatment of mental illness were negotiated across diverse and sometimes surprising sites in mandate Palestine. Bringing together histories of medicine, colonialism, and the modern Middle East, Mandatory Madness highlights how the seemingly personal and private matter of mental illness generated distinctive forms of entanglement: between colonial state and society, Arabs and Jews, and Palestine and the wider region.