Jews and Palestinians in the Late Ottoman Era, 1908-1914: Claiming the Homeland

by Louis A. Fishman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474454001
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/16/2021
Series:	Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	820,666
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Louis A. Fishman is an associate professor at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He works on Ottoman Palestine and has a special interest in Ottoman politics during the Young Turk period. He also writes on Turkish, Israeli and Palestinian affairs. He divides his time between New York, Istanbul and Tel Aviv.

Table of Contents

List of Maps and IllustrationsAbbreviationsAcknowledgements Notes on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction1. Setting the Stage before Conflict2. The Emergence of a Collective Palestinian Identity3. The Haram al-Sharif Incident and its Aftermath4. Palestine’s Jewish Community Unites5. Ottomans and Zionists in IstanbulConclusionBibliography

What People are Saying About This

Rashid Khalidi

Louis Fishman's book offers a gripping account of the emergence of Palestinian and Zionist identities in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire. Deeply researched and nuanced in its understanding of the evolution of both of these communities and of how their emergence helped produce the conflict of subsequent years, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting a full picture of why that conflict is so intractable.　　

　

Editorial Reviews

[...] a solid work based on a variety of sources and providing excellent analyses [...]. Reading Fishman in the light of current events helps to better understand the frustration of the Palestinians and one of the colonial aspects of Zionism.

Contemporary Levant Vol. 5, Issue 2 - Roberto Mazza

Louis Fishman's book offers a gripping account of the emergence of Palestinian and Zionist identities in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire. Deeply researched and nuanced in its understanding of the evolution of both of these communities and of how their emergence helped produce the conflict of subsequent years, this book is essential reading for anyone wanting a full picture of why that conflict is so intractable.

Rashid Khalidi

[...] there is no one better able to tell this inter-twined history than Fishman, who is fluent in Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish and whose scholarly craftsmanship has made him an authoritative historian of the late Ottoman Empire. Fishman’s deep archival research places readers on the ground with the Jews and Palestinians struggling for power and resources as they contested with one another for their place in the imperial domain. [...] Fishman’s careful research and reasoned analysis offer an important story about a world still largely fixed and determined by endlessly immutable and only occasionally crossed lines.

Bustan: The Middle East Book Review, 2021, Vol. 12, No. 1 - Donna Robinson Divine