My mother‘s 1955 bachelor’s thesis, “The Synagogue and its Architecture”, uses the term “Palestine” 24 times, the adjective “Palestinian” 8 times, and the adjective “Palestinean” once (maybe this is a misspelling). Example from the Preface:
The thesis uses the term to describe present-day Israel even before the Roman era, e.g., prior to the 2nd century BC Maccabees (who gave us Hanukkah):
An example from Roman times:
“Palestine was the center of Jewish life”:
Loosely related, from Stanford University Press… Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique:
From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism, are themselves subjected to an “empire of critique” from Israeli and Palestinian institutions, Western academics, journalists and filmmakers, and even fellow activists. Such global criticism has limited growth and led to an emphasis within the movement on anti-imperialism over the struggle against homophobia.
I’m having some trouble understanding “LGBTQ Palestinians … are themselves subjected to an empire of critique”. I didn’t think that “critique” was the punishment for LGBTQ sexual activity under Islamic law.
Critique with extreme prejudice.
Odd that post-expulsion western Jewish communities continued to use the Greek-based “Synagogue” (preposition “with” and “again”) for the the house of worship while in modern Hebrew the term used in Israel is Bet Knesset, the 5th century BCE term for the post-phrophetic era “Great Assembly”. During the era your mom described the term described a mixed civil and government institution. Ditto Israel today. Personally I think the place should be called Philistine.
Did your mother ever mention if she typed her own papers? I know more than one man who got married just so he would have someone to type his papers in college. Then, when they had children, she would type their papers as well
SN: Both of my parents were proficient at typing (manual, of course!). I took typing as a formal class in a public school (maybe in the summer?) and I think we enjoyed the luxury of electric typewriters (but not the expensive IBM Selectrics; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric ).
It is clear that Harvard was in Esau camp long before queers became legal.
Use of fake term “Palestine” by all ruling empires from Roman through Byzantine, Ottoman to British (and by old neighboring empires, with exception of Muhammadans and perhaps Persians until 20th century), instituted by Roman Emperor Hadrian in order to wipe out Jewish history gives huge credence to one of religious Jews worldview that we are in 3rd occupation of land of Israel, continuing since Rome took over in 1st century BCE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_Palaestina
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23887353