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

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urban population, 33, 123, 125
Ūrshalīm, 50. See also Jerusalem


van den Berg, Emmanuel, 72
Vatican, 33
Venuti, Lawrence, 68–69


Waardenburg, Jacques, 74
Wadi Hawarith, 88
waqf (pl. awqāf), 239
Weitz, Eric, 242
Weizmann, Chaim, 240
West Bank, 16
Wolski, Kalixt de, La Russie Juive, 228
World Zionist Organization, 172–73


yahūd awlād al-ʿarab, 37
Yathrib (Madina), 144
Yehoshuʿa, Yaʿqub, 193
Yehuda ha-Nasi, 203
Yemen, 144
Yemenite Jews, 114
Yishuv, 34, 35, 96
Yom Kippur, 240
Young Turk Revolution, 23, 24–26, 96,
98, 101, 102, 122, 187; and Jews, 165;
and press freedoms, 196; Sehayik on,
134n9
Yusuf, Saadiah bin (Saadiah Gaon), 149
Yuval, Israel, 4n5


Zakka, Iliya, 192–93
Zaydan, Emile, 139, 141; “The Jews and
the War,” 131–32, 179–84
Zaydan, Jurji (George), 11, 131, 134,
157, 174, 182; “The Jews in the Lands
of the Arabs,” 143–44; and N. Malul,
227n163; and Moyal, 203, 205, 210;
Ṭabaqāt al-umam aw as-salā ʾil
al-bashariy ya, 28, 141–43
ha-Ẓevi (ha-Or; Hashkafah), 96, 129; “The
Arabic Theater,” 112–13; Arab-like Jew
in, 114; Arabs in, 102–3; “The Arabs in
Jaffa,” 102; and Ben-Yehuda interview
with al-Khalidi, 39; borders of identity
in, 111–12; Christian Arabs in, 108–9;


“A Christian Muslim Woman,” 112;
Christians as non-Arabs in, 107–8;
Christians in, 99–100; criticism of Otto-
man Empire by, 118; and Karaites,
112–13; “Killed,” 100–101; and
Kremer, 104n37, 105; Muslim Arabs in,
108; Muslims as enemies of Christians
in, 109–11; Muslims in, 100–101;
“Rabbi for the Jews and Christian Dev-
otee,” 118; religion in, 99–102, 103;
and Yemenite Jews, 114
Zikhron Yaʿakov, 33
Zion, 49, 75, 80
Zionism: and ʿAbboud, 236–37; apologet-
ics for (see apologetics); in Arabic jour-
nals, 9, 133; Arabic press opposition to,
9, 106, 127–28, 129, 187, 190, 192,
231–33, 234; and Arab identity and
Palestinian nationalism, 75; and Bible,
76, 132; and Christian Arabs, 106, 115;
as danger for Palestine, 90; English rab-
binic decree against, 90; and Europe,
29; and Faisal Hussein, 240; and fella-
hin, 125; as form of racism, 247; as
Great Danger, 185; and ha-Ḥerut, 97,
128–30; and Hirsch, 91; and ijmāʿ (con-
sensus), 64; and Islamic tolerance, 115;
and Italian Jews, 86; Jewish opponents
of, 60–64, 90–91; and Jewish sover-
eignty, 128–29; and M. R. al-Khalidi,
7–8, 12, 42, 43, 45–92, 162, 166; and
Yusuf Diyaʾal-Khalidi, 50–51, 54, 89;
lack of Jewish consensus on, 66; lan-
guage as contested in, 186; and Ma-
karyus, 175–78, 179; and N. Malul,
222, 229, 231; and Mendelssohn, 61;
money as central to, 87–89; and Moyal,
199, 217–18; and al-Muqtaṭaf, 178–79;
and Muslim Arabs, 106; and Nassar, 11,
90, 185, 186, 232; and newspapers, 87;
as official organization, 35n74; and Ot-
toman limits on Jewish migration,
24n32; and Palestinian National Char-
ter, 247; and Pius x, 237n8; rabbis as
forbidding, 60–64; and race, 139n26;
and racism, 13, 247; and Reform
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