Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

288 Pages·2016·3.58 MB·English

by  Abigail Jacobson

o r i e n t a l
n e i g h b o r s
Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs
in Mandatory Palestine
ABIGAIL JACOBSON AND MOSHE NAOR

o r i e n ta l n e i g h b o r s

the schusterman series in israel studies
Editors | S. Ilan Troen | Jehuda Reinharz | Sylvia Fuks Fried
The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies publishes original scholarship of ex-
ceptional significance on the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. It
draws on disciplines across the academy, from anthropology, sociology, political
science, and international relations to the arts, history, and literature. It seeks
to further an understanding of Israel within the context of the modern Middle
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For a complete list of books in this series, please see www.upne.com
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Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity
Anita Shapira, Israel: A History
in the New Israeli State
Orit Rozin, The Rise of the Individual
Tamar Hess, Self as Nation:
in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism
Contemporary Hebrew Autobiography
Boaz Neumann, Land and Desire
Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the
in Early Zionism
Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929
Anat Helman, Young Tel Aviv:
Calvin Goldscheider, Israeli Society in
A Tale of Two Cities
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The Making of Israel’s National Poet
Yigal Schwartz, The Zionist Paradox:
Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda
Reinharz, editors, Israel in the Middle
Anat Helman, Becoming Israeli: National
East: Documents and Readings on Society,
Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s
Politics, and Foreign Relations,
Tuvia Friling, A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: Pre-1948 to the Present
History, Memory, and the Politics
of Survival

Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor
o r i e n t a l
n e i g h b o r s
Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs
in Mandatory Palestine
Brandeis University Press | Waltham, Massachusetts
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Jacobson, Abigail, 1973– author. | Naor, Moshe, author.
Title: Oriental neighbors : Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in mandatory Palestine /
Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor.
Description: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2017] |
Series: The Schusterman series in Israel studies |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016017473 (print) | LCCN 2016017694 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781512600056 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781512600063 (pbk. : alk.  paper) |
ISBN 9781512600070 (epub, mobi & pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Palestine—Ethnic relations. | Jewish-Arab relations. |
Jews, Oriental—Palestine—Social conditions—20th century. |
Palestinian Arabs—Social conditions—20th century. | Palestine—History—1917–1948.
Classification: LCC DS126 .J27 2016 (print) | LCC DS126 (ebook) |
DDC 305.80095694/09041—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017473
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