The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

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The Road Not Taken: Isḥāq Mūsā al-Ḥusseini and His Chickens · 269

It was established through this organization in 1869–70 by Karl Netter, a French
Jewish philanthropist, writer, and Zionist activist who was the first to be influ-
enced by the efforts and agitation of Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer for the return
of the Jewish people to Eretz Yisrael. The school trained its students in scientific
methods of farming and was involved in the Jewish agricultural settlements
in Palestine. Karl Netter died in 1882 during his last visit to Palestine and was
buried on the grounds of the school.



  1. Hanita Brand, “Loyalty, Belonging, and Their Discontents: Women in
    the Public Sphere in Jewish and Palestinian Cultural Discourse,” Nashim 6 (Fall
    2003): 84–103.

  2. Najwā Qa ̔wār Farah, “Nidā ̓ al-aṭlāl,” in Durūb wa-maṣābīḥ (Nazareth:
    Al-Ḥakīm, n.d.), 69.

  3. Avraham Yinon, trans., “Kri ̓at ha-ḥoravot,” Ha-Mizraḥ He-Ḥadash 15,
    nos. 1–2 (1965): 166.

  4. Khalīl al-Sakākīnī, Kaze ani, rabotai, trans. Gideon Shilo (Jerusalem:
    Tziv ̔onim, 2007), 213.

  5. Ibid., 232.

  6. Ḥemda Ben-Yehuda, “Ḥavat bney Rekhav,” in Yaffah Berlovitz, ed., Sipu-
    rei nashim bnot ha- ̔aliya ha-rishona (Tel Aviv: Sifriyat Tarmil, 1984), 43–77.

  7. Al-Sayyid al-Dālī, “Min ḥadīth al-kutub: Mudhakkirāt dajāja,” Al-Thaqāfa
    245 (1943): 24 (emphasis mine).

  8. Fārūq Wādī, Thalāth ̔alāmāt fī al-riwāya al-filasṭīniyya (Beirut: Al-Mu ̓assasa
    al- ̔Arabiyya lil-Dirāsāt wa-l-Nashr, 1981), 30. Quoted in Kanazi, introduction,



  9. Abul ̔afiya, “Sofer palestini,” 27.

  10. al-Ḥusaynī, Mudhakkirāt dajāja, 34.

  11. Ibid., 120.

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