Time Off: Entertainment, Games and Pass Times in Palestine between the End of the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 173-192
Author(s):  
Cristiana Baldazzi

In this article I would like to provide a little piece of the mosaic of everyday life in Palestine by analyzing some of the places and types of free time in the area between Nablus and Jerusalem in the period between the end of the Ottoman Empire and the beginning of the British Mandate. In particular the paper considers both the games and pastimes in vogue among the men of the so-called middle class, and forms of recreation practiced by women, and it provides an overview of the most popular leisure activities among children, for both boys and girls. The reconstruction of these “fragments of life,” through the “history” of the memoirs (Palestinian diaries and autobiographies) provides a picture of Palestine at that time which is in many respects unusual and not at all static. There are already clearly perceptible elements of discontinuity, change and modernity which penetrate everyday life under the influence of factors which are internal as well as external.

1969 ◽  
pp. 71-80
Author(s):  
Luci Tiho Ikari

This paper aims at revealing the Japanese immigrant’s leisure activities, based on the leisure concept and its functions as promoted by Joffre Dumazedier3. A facet of the Japanese immigration history will be analysed through personality/potentiality development, amusement/entertainment, relaxation/rest activities and events. It verifies how free time from work and everyday life were through small pleasures of their daily lives. The associative habit as an attempt of resolution of problems in their immigration nucleus leads to wider and more diversified practices and organizations of leisure activities and events. Finally,the paper concludes by raising awareness that the group of activities and events were meant to soften the impact of the cultural gap among Brazilians and Japanese, bringing them together and giving support and balance to their lives,improving multicultural scenes of the country.


1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-413
Author(s):  
Mohsen Saleh

This book consists of six chapters, endnotes, a glossary, a bibliography,and an index. Although fairly short vis-a-vis the long period that itcovers (from the Ottoman era to 1988), this book is in fact a very valuablereference work on the subject. The author made considerable efforts tocollect, compare, and analyze the data. However, it seems that the maintitle, Islam and Israel, is rather ambiguous and misleading. The subtitle,Muslim Religious Endowments and the Jewish State, reveals the book'scontents adequately. This title may have been coined by the publisher formarketing purposes.The book explores Israeli policy toward Palestinian Muslim religiousendowments (awqtif, sing. waqf) and studies the methods employed toconfiscate and transfer most of them so that they eventually becameexclusively Jewish property. The waqf system played a very significantsocioeconomic, religious, and educational role in the history of Muslimsociety. About 15 percent of the agricultural land in Palestine is waqf (1.2million dunums), as are many buildings, shops, and other structures inurban areas. The revenue derived from these sources finances importantnetworks of welfare and charitable services in Palestine, such as schools,orphanages, and soup kitchens.The first chapter tackles the Palestinian Muslim waqf system duringthe late Ottoman empire and the British Mandate. It indicates the importanceof waqf for the notable families in Palestine and their administrationof it in ways designed to enhance their power and influence. It also studiesthe arrangements made by the Ottomans during the nineteenth centuryto set up a waqf administrative structure and to develop it under their closesupervision. During the British Mandate (1918-48), however, a new structure,known as The Supreme Muslim Council, was created in 1922. It wasdominated by the Palestinian religious elite and notables and took a"national character" under the leadership of Hajj Am1n al ijusayn1. In1937, the British mandatory government suspended the council's centralcommittee and replaced it with a government-appointed commission.These measures undermined the waqf institution and its role in politics andthe national struggle.The second chapter discusses the Muslim waqf system in Israel from1948 to 1965 and explains how the Zionist state managed to control andconfiscate waqf properties and resources. In the parts of Palestine that ...


Author(s):  
Ushashi Dasgupta

The Introduction offers a preliminary discussion of what Charles Dickens calls the ‘lodger world’, and it establishes the book’s main lines of argument. It explains that tenancy, an economic transaction realized in space, was a central aspect of everyday life in the nineteenth century. An overwhelming majority of Victorians did not own their homes outright. Instead, they were tenants: while single families could take entire houses on lease, lodgers lived in rooms overseen by landladies, and these many kinds of rented space captured Dickens’s imagination. The pervasive need to rent in the period encourages a reassessment of middle-class domestic ideology. The Introduction surveys the history of the property market, reviews Dickens’s active participation in rental culture throughout his life, and describes a number of his creative relationships. It considers the ‘spatial turn’ in cultural studies, and ultimately sets up a link between rented space, narrative, and genre in Dickens’s thinking.


Author(s):  
D.R. Kołodziejczyk ◽  
M.A. Kaczka

Abstract In August 1739, Hotin was captured by Russian troops during the war fought by the Ottoman Empire simultaneously against Russia and Austria. The fortress commander, Ilyas Kolchak Pasha, a Muslim convert from Bosnia, was imprisoned in St. Petersburg while the entire provincial archive was transported to Russia. Today it is held in Moscow and contains almost three thousand documents in Ottoman-Turkish and in Polish, while its small section has also been discovered in Chernihiv. Since the eighteenth century, many other Ottoman documents have been incorporated into the so-called Kolchak Pasha archive in Moscow, including documents from Azov and Perekop, from the archives of Ukrainian Cossack hetmans, and even from the archive of Russian tsars, including two original oath-letters (artnames) sent by the Crimean khans in 1634 and 1646. Needless to say, most of the documents origin from Hotin, from the time when the post of its governor was occupied by Kolchak Pasha. The present article traces the history of this collection, its composition, and offers some glimpses into everyday life of the sancak of Hotin in the 1730s. Its final part is devoted to the Polish language section of the archive and to the network of Kolchaks correspondents in Poland-Lithuania, mostly consisting of opponents to August III, brought to the Polish throne in 1733 with the armed support of Russia. Apart from mutually providing information, both sides exchanged gifts and small favors, while Polish nobles sent their wives to go shopping in Ottoman Hotin, thus rendering the border between Christianity and Islam much more transparent than it has often been assumed.Аннотация В августе 1739 г. Хотин был захвачен российскими войсками в ходе войны, которую Османская империя вела одновременно против России и Австрии. Комендант крепости, Ильяс Колчак-паша, обращенный в ислам боснийец, был пленен и отправлен в Санкт-Петербург, в то время как весь провинциальный архив был перевезен в Россию. В настоящее время он находится в Москве и содержит более трех тысяч документов на османско-турецком и польском языках, одновременно небольшая его часть также была обнаружена в Чернигове. Начиная с XVIII в. множество других документов были также включены в состав так называемого архива Колчак-паши в Москве, включая документы из Азова и Перекопа, из архивов украинских казацких гетманов и даже из российских царских архивов, включая шертные грамоты (artname), отправленные крымскими ханами в 1634 и 1646 гг. Излишне говорить, что большинство документов имеют хотинское происхождение в период, когда пост наместника занимал Колчак-паша. Представленная статья обрисовывает историю этой коллекции, ее структуру и дает некоторое представление о повседневной жизни Хотинского санджака в 1730-е гг. ее заключительная часть посвящена польскоязычной секции архива и сети агентов Колчака в Речи Посполитой, в основной состоявшей из противников Августа III, возведенного на польский трон в 1733 г., благодаря вооруженной российской поддержке. Помимо двусторонней поставки информации, обе стороны обменивались подарками и небольшими взаимными услугами. При этом польские дворяне и их жены выезжали за покупками в османский Хотин, делая тем самым границы между христианским и исламским мирами более прозрачной, чем часто принято считать.


2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-304
Author(s):  
Irina V. Bogdashina

The article examines everyday practices of rest and leisure among urban women living in the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad) - a city that had been completely destroyed during the war. The goal of the present study is to identify specific characteristics in the everyday practices of women. The methodology combines comparative historical, biographical and aggregate methods. Interviews conducted along the empathy method made it possible to identify the sensual and emotional sides of the respondents' lives. The research is based on ego-documents (diaries, oral history), periodicals (magazines, newspapers), and statistics. The article discusses the concepts of free time and rest as preserved in the memory of townspeople, and also private and public forms of leisure. A major finding is that women's memory and texts reveal sensory and emotional experiences that can be used for the history of everyday life. This allows for an imagination of everyday life from a new angle. Domestic work took away the vast majority of women's free time, and given the cultural potential of the region was still underdeveloped, most city dwellers concentrated pastime activities on their homes. However, with the high workload of women at home and at work, it was leisure outside the home that remained one of the few ways for women to relax and recover from mental and physical stress. The everyday life of urban women in the 1950s and 1960s was characterized by a division of leisure in private and public forms.


Author(s):  
Sara Margarita Yañez-Flores ◽  
Jaquelina Lizet Hernández-Cueto ◽  
María del Consuelo Salinas-Aguirre ◽  
Alma Verena Solís-Solís

Leisure and free time are a part of human beings’ life, and perhaps neither how nor why is thought of. In leisure, activities are individual and obligation free; free time activities, although can be chosen whether to do them or not, are linked to social pressures and included in the legislation and as universal human rights: Recreation, amusement and rest. The objective of the article is to analyze the way in which the post-degree students visualize and incorporate the leisure and free time in their everyday life. The used method is quantitative, explorational-descriptive, and transversal. The article contributes demonstrating the subjective wealth that impregnates the leisure forms and free time activities into the way each of the individuals do things, think, say, and spend time in their educational, social, and work related relationships and interrelationships. The questionnaire was answered by 70 post-degree students ―53 women and 17 men― most of them working. Some female students spend 15% of their week in free time activities and 27.5% to leisure; in both activities men said to spend 27% of their week. Only 16 women and six men consider free time as a fundamental human right.


Author(s):  
И.В. Богдашина

Дневники хирурга Зинаиды Сергеевны Седельниковой хранятся в Государственном архиве Волгоградской области в коллекции документов медицинских работников и являются редким архивным источником по истории женского нестоличного быта и повседневности. Автор очень бережно относилась к дневникам, которые вела с 1933 по 2004 год, разделив их на 179 тетрадей. Область наших научных интересов представляют дневниковые записи, сделанные в период с 1951 по 1969год (тетради № 35–85) и охватывающие события города Волгограда (Сталинграда). Основным содержанием дневниковых записей являются заметки с описанием повседневной жизни и окружающей обстановки, особое внимание уделяется эпизодам бытового характера: обеспечение продовольственными и непродовольственными товарами, жилищные условия, внутрисемейные отношения и досуговые занятия. Особенности дневника состоят не только в авторских записях, но и вложенных и вклеенных фотографиях, вырезках из газет и календарей, телеграмм, писем, театральных буклетов, билетов на мероприятия, лоскутков тканей и гербариев цветов. Благодаря наличию такого редкого источника личного происхождения, мы имеем возможность воссоздать картину повседневного быта нестоличного региона через призму женского восприятия. The State Archive of the Volgograd Region stores diaries of a surgeon Zinaida Sergeyevna Sedelnikova. The diaries are part of the collection of documents of healthcare workers and are a rare archival source that can shed light on the history of everyday life as viewed by women living far from the capital. The author of the diaries treated them with meticulous care and completed 179 notebooks, her first diary was written in 1933, her last diary was completed in 2004. Our research investigates diary entries written in 1951–1969 (notebooks 35–85) and describing events witnessed by the author in the city of Volgograd (Stalingrad). The analyzed diary entries focus on everyday life, they describe the environment in which the author lived and treat some daily routines: provision of food and non-food products, accommodation, family relationships, and leisure activities. The diaries do not only contain the authors’ memories, they also include numerous photographs, newspaper clippings and calendar sheets, telegrams, letters, theatre booklets, tickets for events, pieces of fabric, dried flowers. This unique and rare document enables us to clearly visualize everyday life and daily routines through the eyes of a woman living far from the capital.


2021 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Natalia L. Pushkareva ◽  
◽  
Irina V. Bogdashina ◽  

Introduction of women’s ego-documents (diaries) into scientific use as is an urgent task of gender anthropology and history of everyday life. 179 diaries of the surgeon Zinaida Sedelnikova, found in the State Archive of the Volgograd Region, are a comprehensive documentary source for studying women’s everyday life in one of the cities of the Middle Volga region. It allows us to reveal features of the daily life of a non-capital city through the prism of female perception. The authors set themselves the task of analyzing in detail a document that reflected the everyday life of a city dweller in a non-capital city in the Middle Volga region that was reviving after the war. In the course of the work, historical-comparative, biographical (biography as case analysis), aggregative methods have been used. The author of diaries lived for 60 years in Volgograd, studied and worked there as a doctor. Her way of thinking, value system, everyday practices have interested the participants of a collective project for studying the characteristics of Russian female social memory. The records dating from 1951 to 1969 (notebooks no. 35–85) depict professional, home, family, everyday, and festive life of the Soviet provincial city in its repeatability and rhythm. The diaries contain detailed descriptions of foraging (food and non-food products) in the provincial Soviet city, housing conditions, household life (cleaning methods, simple recipes preserved in oral tradition or borrowed from newspapers and magazines are listed), impressions of leisure activities, relationships with relatives and friends. An emotional, sometimes poetic description of events (the author rhymed and wrote down poems in her diary) is revealed through the prism of female perception. This allows us recreate the provincial female life; photographs, newspaper clippings, calendars, telegrams, letters, theater booklets, event tickets, shreds of fabrics, herbarium present the details of everyday life and help to analyze the identity of a women from amongst the intellectual elite of the Soviet city of the 1950–1960s.


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