The Last Village Mukhtar, Dir-el-Kassi/Elkosh, from Non-Historical Moments
Joshua Glotman
2000
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Glotman’s Non-Historical Moments project focuses on family photographs of Palestinians expelled from the village of Dir-el-Kassi during Israel’s War of Independence. A moshav, or cooperative farm settlement, called Elkosh, was built on the ruins of the village. The title of the series is a protest against what Glotman saw as the erasure of this aspect of Israeli history and his attempt to insert the collective and personal experiences of the Palestinian villagers into the historical record. The leaves flanking the portrait are fig leaves.
Credits
Courtesy of the artist.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 10.
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