Eleonore Merza
Eleonore Merza | |
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Born | 1980 Paris |
Education | Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Eleonore Merza (born 1980?) is an
Biography
Merza was born in Paris circa 1980.[1] Her father's family were Circassian, originally from Maykop in Adygea, but who were forced to flee from the region in the 1860s by the Russian government.[1] This era became known as the Circassian genocide, where 1.5 million people were killed, and 90% of the same number who remained were forced to emigrate.[1] Merza's great-grandfather Mamet Merzamwkhwo was a refugee who fled, first to the Balkans, then to the Golan Heights where twelve Circassian villages were founded, including Mansoura where the family settled.[1] Later the inhabitants were expelled following the Israeli invasion and moved to Syria.[1]
In contrast, Merza's mother's family were Algerian Jews; the two met at a Communist Party meeting in Paris whilst studying abroad.[1] They married and lived in Paris, where Merza and her brother Alexandre-Indar were born.[1] Merza spent her early childhood in Amman as her father worked there an engineer.[1] She attended a French school, but lived in a Circassian community.[1]
Career
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Merza undertook doctoral research at
In 2015, she and her husband Eitan Bronstein Aparicio founded the NGO De-Colonizer to try to begin to sensitise Israelis to their colonial history.[7]
In 2018 Merza published a new work Nakba, which aims to bring the discussion of the role of the Israeli state as a coloniser back to public consciousness.[8] Her understanding of the Nakba has contributed to other academic projects.[9] This work is part of a trend in memory activism in Israel since 1998.[10] Both believe that Palestinian points of view need to be understood by Israeli Jews.[11]
Selected publications include:
- Nakba (Omniscience, 2018)[12]
- 'The Israeli Circassians: non-Arab Arabs', Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (2012)[13]
- 'Being both Non-Jewish Israelis and Non-Palestinian Muslims: Isn’t it Too Much?', Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem (2010)[14]
She lives in Tel Aviv and in addition to her anthropological research works as a photographer and a writer.[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Hass, Amira (2016-05-16). "A Woman Digs for Her Circassian Family's Roots - and Plants Her Own - in the Golan". Haaretz. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ISSN 0398-2025.
- ^ Merza, Eleonore (2012). Ni Juifs ni Arabes en Israël: dialectiques d'identification et négociations identitaires d'une minorité dans un espace en guerre : le cas des Tcherkesses (Adyghéens) de Kfar Kama et de Reyhaniya (in French).
- ISSN 0009-8140.
- ISSN 2075-5287.
- ^ "Eleonore Merza Bronstein". orientxxi.info. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ "Retour de Palestine (2) Rencontre avec Eléonore Merza Bronstein". morlaix-palestine-solidarite, AFPS du Pays de Morlaix (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ "Printemps de la Palestine / Conférence d'Eléonore Merza-Bronstein sur son dernier livre". Association France Palestine Solidarité (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ^ Shaindlinger, Noa Tova (2016). Remembering Past(s), Imagining Futures: The Politics of Hope in Palestine (Thesis thesis).
- ISSN 1898-5947.
- ^ "Israel and Palestine: a story of modern colonialism". openDemocracy. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- OCLC 1080639899.)
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- ISSN 2075-5287.
- ^ "who we are". de-colonizer (in French). Retrieved 2020-04-17.