Defining Neighbors. Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter - Jonathan Marc Gribetz

184 • ChAPTEr 4 intellectuals of the period. they recognized and acknowledged the ad- versity that the Jews faced, both historic ...

Chapter 5 translation and Conquest: transforming perceptions through the press and apologetics And now, the known Christian enem ...

186 • chapter 5 Finally, the author of the exhortation cited above was Shimon Moyal, whose at- Talmūd of 1909 was, as we have se ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 187 “conquest of land.”^7 the former denotes the effort to have Jewish- owned farms and places of emp ...

188 • chapter 5 this knowledge is extremely limited. Most of the [Jewish] arabic speakers are from the masses of the nation; our ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 189 case, for many Sephardic Jews, Ladino (not arabic) was the language spoken at home while hebrew w ...

190 • chapter 5 religious court of the local chief rabbi.^22 In egypt, Nissim Malul con- tinued his education in Jewish religiou ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 191 translations of relevant arabic newspaper and journal articles.^28 his extensive expository repor ...

192 • chapter 5 particularly their leadership were an overwhelmingly literate, edu- cated community, and so it was natural for r ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 193 Ha- Ḥerut also supported Zakka’s paper more circuitously. the he- brew paper encouraged members o ...

194 • chapter 5 to have Zionism presented more favorably in the arabic press, sev- eral arabic- writing Zionists tried another t ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 195 or fifteen, hardly a sufficient number to fill the editorial boards even of just the most importa ...

196 • chapter 5 ottoman empire’s other ethnic and religious communities: “We find a Sunni Muslim arabic newspaper, a Shiite Musl ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 197 ated newspapers in non- Jewish languages, but no Gentiles ever read them.^51 Similarly, if a Zion ...

198 • chapter 5 it is difficult, surely, to consider Malul’s description of arab culture as “minor” to be an expression of deep ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 199 sought to portray Judaism and Jewish history to non- Jewish readers of arabic. i argue that Moyal ...

200 • chapter 5 Maimonides’s introduction to his mishnah commentary,^56 the Judeo- arabic commentary on Pirkei avot attributed t ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 201 certain “misunderstandings” they had about Jews. the language of Moyal’s work is thus not inciden ...

202 • chapter 5 Jewish communities of aleppo (1810), Beirut (1824), antioch (1826), hama (1829), tripoli (1834), and Jerusalem ( ...

traNSLatioN aND coNqueSt • 203 the complexities of interreligious relations in the fin de siècle Middle east, the instigator was ...