Trading Secrets
Constructions and Contexts of Two Middle Eastern Jewish Guards in the Early Petah Tikva Agricultural Colony
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8965260 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liora R Halperin (0000-0001-6205-0853, University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 65-86 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743818001162 |
| OpenAlex | W2911003287 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 34 |
Two Arabic-speaking Jewish guards worked in the European Jewish agricultural colony of Petah Tikva soon after its founding, northeast of Jaffa, in 1878: Daud abu Yusuf from Baghdad and Yaʿqub bin Maymun Zirmati, a Maghribi Jew from Jaffa. The two men, who worked as traders among Bedouin but were recruited for a short time by the colony, offer a rare glimpse of contacts between Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews in rural Jewish colonies established in the last quarter of the 19th century, colonies that are often regarded as detached from their local and Ottoman landscape. The article first argues that Zionist sources constructed these two men as bridges to the East in their roles as teachers of Arabic and perceived sources of legitimization for the European Jewish settlement project. It then reads beyond the sparse details offered in Ashkenazi Zionist sources to resituate these men in their broad imperial and regional context and argue that, contrary to the local Zionist accounts, the colony was in fact likely to have been marginal to these men's commercial and personal lives
Agriculture · Ancient history · Arabic · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Economics · Genealogy · Genizah · Islam · Judaism · Linguistics · Middle East · Quarter (Canadian coin · Settlement (finance · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
Orientalism and the Hebrew Imagination
Traditional Society in Transition
Overthrowing Geography
Firsting and Lasting
Palestinian Identity. The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
The Imagined Geographies of Settler Colonialism
The Creation of Israeli Arabic
Ottoman Brothers
Arabs of the Jewish Faith
Hamidian Palestine
Defining Neighbors
Horses at Work
The Arab Jews
The Disenchantment of the Orient
Rediscovering Palestine
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
Settler Colonialism
The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought
Sephardic Jews in America
Urheimat Asien’ the Re‐orientation of German and Austrian Jews, 1900–1925
Oriental Neighbors
What Ottoman Nationality Was and Was Not
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib
Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Mashriq
Jaffa
Memory, the Rebirth of the Native, and the "Hebrew Bedouin" Identity
What's in a name? Socio-terminological formations and the case for 'Arabized-Jews
Rupture and Return
Knowing Your Enemy, Knowing Your Ally
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |