Ramle Remade: The Israelization of an Arab Town
Tel Aviv Review · TLV1 Studios
February 23, 201821m 50s
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Show Notes
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.