The people of palestine an Enlarged edition of "the peasantry of palestine, life manners and customes of the village" - by Elihau Grant, published by J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London 1921.
A travel book documenting the lives of rural villagers in Eretz Israel in the early 1920s. The book deals with the country's topography, Bedouin tribes life, Muslim and Christian Nomads, village life - the religious foundations, cemeteries, ruined churches and mosques, villagers' customs, religious associations and local traditions, relations between villagers and city dwellers, the impact of WWI on the social fabric in Eretz Israel, and more. The book is accompanied by many unknown photographs of villagers in traditional dress, daily crafts, holidays, women's customs, medical clinics in Jaffa, Jerusalem, Safed, Haifa and others, village cemetery styles, and more.
Rare. to our knowledge hasn't appeared at auction before.
271 p. 20 cm. Former library copy. Good condition.
