Hebrew Orientalism : Jewish Engagement with Arabo-Islamic Culture in Late Ottoman and British Palestine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hussein, Mostafa.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism in literature.

Jewish-Arab relations in literature.

Jewish-Arab relations--History.

Jewish-Arab relations--History--1917-1948.

Jewish-Arab relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2025.

Summary:

How Jewish writers in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine used Arabo-Islamic culture to advance the goals of Zionism In the decades before the establishment of a Jewish state in 1948, native and immigrant Jews in Palestine mediated between Jewish and Arab cultures while navigating their evolving identities as settler colonists.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction

Part I. Shared Homeland: Late Ottoman Palestine, 1882-1917

1. Ambivalent Encounters: Jews and Arabs in Late Ottoman Palestine

2. Writing the Landscape, Writing the Homeland

3. Constructing Jewish Indigeneity through Arabic Language and Literature

Part II. The Construction of a National Home in Mandate Palestine, 1917-48

4. The Ethnonationalization of the Palestine Landscape

5. The Hebrew Construction of an Arabo-Islamic Literary Past

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-691-28003-7

OCLC:

1543212399