Summary
Poet of the Second Aliya, as the epigraph of Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers attributes him (spelled Blumegarten in that attribution), whose 1915 lines on meeting an old barefoot Arab give the article its opening instance of the native recorded as alien in the homeland (Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, PDF p.1 / printed p.39).
Details
- The epigraph, dated 1915 in the attribution: the narrator has just arrived, has hardly slept one night in Eretz Israel, and yet saw the Arab, whose ancestors had for ages driven loaded camels and shepherded sheep, as an alien; he records himself as the inhabitant and the Arab as the nomad, with a sense of shame and the cry that this is his homeland (PDF p.1).
- Pappé’s article takes this first impression as the formative pattern whose persistence it traces to the present (PDF p.7-10 / printed p.45-48).
Related pages
Shtetl Colonialism: First and Last Impressions of Indigeneity by Colonised Colonisers, Second Aliya, Indigeneity