Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Cultural heritage definition from a Western European angle -- Cultural heritage definition from a non‐European angle -- Cultural heritage definition as "shared cultural heritage" -- About the book -- Part I Theoretical approach -- Part II Nationality and the construction of cultural heritage -- Part III Multinational divisions and the construction of cultural heritage -- Part IV The postnational concept and the construction of shared heritage -- Bibliography -- I. Theoretical approach -- The concept of heritage - A national perspective -- Introduction -- Cultural heritage and the concept of nation -- Jewish cultural heritage as nationalism -- Israeli Palestinians cultural heritage as nationalism -- Epilogue: Cultural heritage as an unstable category -- Bibliography -- Common, shared, contradictory heritage? -- Introduction -- Definitions and terms: Cultural heritage revisited -- Components of cultural heritage: (How) can cultural heritage be shared? -- Varieties of understanding: Common or shared heritage? -- Political framework: Postcolonial memory culture in Germany -- An example from Germany: The Humboldt Forum in Berlin -- Chances, limits, utopias? A brief outlook -- Bibliography -- Other Sources -- II. Nationality and the construction of cultural heritage -- The Dawn Multicultural Theater: Sharing heritage through documentary theater -- Introduction -- Theater and the construction of national heritage: A case study in Israel -- Documentary theater and the construction of heritage -- Methods -- Analysis -- Emotional resuscitation and revitalizing of personal memories -- Consciousness‐raising: Repositioning memories of community heritage -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Other Sources -- From the Mellah in Marrakesh to Israel and back -- Introduction.

The Jews of Marrakesh and the immigration to Israel -- Dispersal of Moroccan and Marrakesh Jews in the periphery of Israel -- Moroccan Jewish associations and heritage centers in Israel -- Methods -- Analysis -- The Association's political initiatives -- Returning "home" to the Mellah -- Returning back to Israel -- Epilogue: from the Mellah to Israel and back -- Bibliography -- War memorials as a non‐monologic heritage site -- Introduction -- Military memorial sites in Israel -- The Negev Brigade's involvement in the '48 war -- The Monument to the Negev Brigade -- Methods -- Analysis -- Monuments of war as a monologic shared heritage -- Monuments of war as a polysemic shared heritage -- Concluding remarks: Remembrance, monuments, and the idea of heritage -- Bibliography -- Arab‐Hebrew bread: The story of the Hubeza and the split local heritage -- Introduction -- Food as cultural language and heritage -- Why not the hubeza? -- The authentic and the exotic: The contemporary foodie discourse -- Methods -- Three periods, three themes -- The fifties: The siege of Jerusalem narrative -- 2000-2018: Baladi‐Local is great, Arabic even better -- When the local becomes exotic: The creation of local‐Other food -- Local and exotic wild food: Meet Nadima from the market in Wadi Nisnas -- Nostalgia and childhood: The imagined distance -- The knowledge gap, imagined rarity and changing identity -- The taming of the shrew: The aestheticization of the exotic as it is displayed in Israeli restaurants today -- Promoting local food in Israel -- Bibliography -- III. Multinational divisions and the construction of cultural heritage -- Liselotte Grschebina. -- Introduction -- German cultures migrating from Germany to Palestine/Eretz‐Israel in the 1930s -- German Jewish artists in Palestine/Eretz‐Israel -- Between two worlds: Liselotte Grschebina's photography project.

Methods -- Analysis -- The low angle perspective: Between the personal and the collective -- Staged background and photomontage -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- "What shall I cook?" -- Introduction -- Components of a new Jewish identity: The Zionist image of women -- The household as a "business": Erna Meyer's understanding of the New woman -- How to cook in Palestine: Erna Meyer's WIZO cookbook -- Nation‐building through cooking? Acculturation versus transculturation -- Conclusion: Cookbooks, migration, and shared cultural heritage -- Bibliography -- Modernist interior design as a shared heritage? -- Introduction -- Towards the "heart of architectural composition": Interiors -- Modernist functionality: The Frankfurt kitchen -- Modernist architecture in Israel: The White City in Tel Aviv -- Biedermeier furniture and cultural identities: Diasporic rooms -- Social and cultural impacts: Kitchens as relational interior spaces -- Musealization and functional change: The Frankfurt kitchen in Tel Aviv -- Conclusion: Interior architecture as a witness of shared heritage? -- Bibliography -- Colonial monuments and the treatment of history -- Introduction -- European imperialism and colonialism -- History, culture of remembrance and cultural memory -- Colonial monuments in the public culture of remembrance -- The Edward Colston monument in Bristol -- Methods -- The public discourse: Contradictory commemoration? -- Final notes: Shared heritage as a correction of European remembrance culture? -- Bibliography -- Secondary literature -- Other Sources -- The Story of a monument, Land Day in Sakhnin, 1976-1978 -- Introduction -- Palestinian art in the diaspora, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip -- Palestinian art in Haifa, Israel -- Description of the monument -- Methods -- Analysis -- Land as a particular element in constructing the cultural heritage.

Solidarity as the universal element in constructing cultural heritage -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Musical (world) heritage? -- Introduction -- Togetherness of the "peoples"? The West‐Eastern Divan Orchestra -- Methods -- Daniel Barenboim: Music as a universal language -- Edward W. Said: Counterpoint discourses -- Positions of the participants: Music and identity -- Opportunity and limits of shared heritage: Musical diplomacy? -- Bibliograpy -- Other Sources -- IV. The postnational concept and the construction of shared heritage -- Encoding the spatial DNA of Tel Aviv's White City -- Introduction -- The import of German material: The transfer agreement (1933-1938) -- The first Hebrew city and its architects: The local Neue Sachlichkeit -- Volksbedarf statt Luxusbedarf: A masterplan for the whole country -- The 'Israeli style': Garden city plan and outdoor balconies in Tel Aviv -- Conservatism 2.0: The local conservation 2650B' -- German‐Israeli cooperation: The Liebling‐House - White City Center -- Shared heritage? Some preliminary conclusions -- Bibliography -- German remembrance? Jewish museums in Germany -- Introduction -- Museums as cultural heritage agencies -- The museumization of German Jewish culture -- The Jewish Museum G�oppingen -- Methods -- The permanent exhibition: Exhibits, conception, and design -- Accompanied tour of the exhibition -- Place of dialogue? Museum, mediation and antisemitism -- Conclusion: Shared or difficult heritage? -- Bibliography -- Other Sources -- Shared memories, shared heritage? -- Introduction -- Emigrate, immigrate? Narratives of migration in Germany -- Forgotten heritage? Migration and guest work in cultural history museums -- Shared memories? DOMiD and the narrative of a culture of migration -- Common or shared heritage? Possibilities and limits -- Bibliography -- Other Sources.

Own or foreign heritage? Young Muslims in Auschwitz (2012-2021) -- Introduction -- Plural remembering? Forms of collective memory -- Common heritage? Forms of antisemitism -- National remembrance? National Socialist memorials and the Holocaust -- Methods -- Analysis -- The project initiator and manager -- The concept of the memorial trip -- The participants of the project -- Participation in the memorial trip -- Shared history, common heritage? A preliminary conclusion -- Bibliography -- The use of digital space for equal shared cultural heritage for Jews and Arabs in Israel -- Introduction -- Cultural heritage in the digital era -- The Arab Palestinian minority and the search for equal cultural heritage in Israel -- Methods -- Analysis -- Digital tools for preserving cultural heritage -- Digital tools for engaging with cultural heritage -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Shared heritage on the Hartmannswillerkopf -- Introduction -- Warrior or comrade? German monuments in the Weimar Republic -- "Ils ne passeront pas": French memorials and monuments -- Remembering together? Politics of history and places of remembrance -- The Historial of the Hartmannswillerkopf - German‐French commemoration -- Conclusions: War experience as a shared heritage? -- Bibliography -- Other Sources -- Biographies of the contributors.

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