Jews And Palestinians In The Late Ottoman Era 1908 1914

Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It presents an innovative analysis of the struggle in its first years, when Palestine was still an integral part of the Ottoman Empire. And it argues that in the late Ottoman era, Jews and Palestinians were already locked in conflict: the new freedoms introduced by the Young Turk Constitutional Revolution exacerbated divisions (rather than serving as a unifying factor). Offering an integrative approach, it considers both communities, together and separately, in order to provide a more sophisticated narrative of how the conflict unfolded in its first years.

Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It presents an innovative analysis of the struggle in its first years, when Palestine was still an integral part of the Ottoman Empire. And it argues that in the late Ottoman era, Jews and Palestinians were already locked in conflict: the new freedoms introduced by the Young Turk Constitutional Revolution exacerbated divisions (rather than serving as a unifying factor). Offering an integrative approach, it considers both communities, together and separately, in order to provide a more sophisticated narrative of how the conflict unfolded in its first years.

Krämer focuses on patterns of interaction amongst Jews and Arabs (Muslim as well as Christian) in Palestine, an interaction that deeply affected the economic, political, social, and cultural evolution of both communities under Ottoman and British rule.

Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era set the stage for the on-going Palestinian-Israeli conflict. It presents an innovative analysis of the struggle in its first years, when Palestine was still an integral part of the Ottoman Empire. And it argues that in the late Ottoman era, Jews and Palestinians were already locked in conflict: the new freedoms introduced by the Young Turk Constitutional Revolution exacerbated divisions (rather than serving as a unifying factor). Offering an integrative approach, it considers both communities, together and separately, in order to provide a more sophisticated narrative of how the conflict unfolded in its first years.

Introduction : the case study of Palestine during the Young Turk era / Yuval Ben-Bassat and Eyal Ginio -- Part 1, Citizenship, election and social change: Making citizens, contesting citizenship in Late Ottoman Palestine / Michelle U. Campos. Elections in Late Ottoman Palestine : early exercises in political representation / Mahmoud Yazbak. Children of the Revolution : youth in Palestinian public life, 1908-14 / Johann Büssow -- Part 2, The "civilizing mission" and center-periphery relationships: Jerusalem and Jaffa in the Late Ottoman Period : the concession-hunting struggle for public works projects / Yasemin Avci. Understanding the 1911 Ottoman Parliament debate on Zionism in light of the emergence of a "Jewish question" / Louis Fishman. Jerusalem under the Young Turks : a study based on local sources / Issam Nassar -- Part 3, Intellectual responses: Arab-Ottomanists' reactions to the Young Turk Revolution / Butrus Abu-Manneh. Jews writing in Arabic : Shimon Moyal, Nissim Malul and the mixed Palestinian/Eretz Israeli locale / Abigail Jacobson. The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 as reflected in the media of the Jewish community in Palestine / Ruth Kark and Nadav Solomonovich -- Part 4, Inter- and intra-communal relationships: Administrating the non-Muslims and the "question of Jerusalem" after the Young Turk Revolution / Bedross Der Matossian. The Zionist struggle as reflected in the Jewish press in Istanbul in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution, 1908-18 / Yaron Ben Naeh. The Young Turks and the Bahaʼis in Palestine / Necati Alkan.

Ottoman Brothers explores Ottoman collective identity, tracing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews became imperial citizens together in Palestine following the 1908 revolution.

In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded project “Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City, 1840–1940.” Drawn from the French vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of citadinité describes the dynamic identity relationship a city’s inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban environment.