Arab-Jewish Relations in the Mandate

Question 1

Who are some advocates of the ‘dual society’ model?

Answer 1

Eisenstadt, Horowitz, Lissak

Question 2

To what does Barnei attribute early historians’ almost exclusive focus on the Jewish community?

Answer 2

Explicit denial that the Land of Israel and people in it had any significant history other than Jewish history

Question 3

Which ‘modern’ historian also argues there were parallel societies, as part of a conflict between two nations?

Answer 3

Gelvin

Question 4

Who are some of the advocates of the ‘relational paradigm’?

Answer 4

Lockman, Campos, Tamari, Bernstein

Question 5

Who has criticised the ‘relationship paradigm’ from a Palestinian perspective?

Answer 5

Abu-Lughod

Question 6

Who argues that Lockman goes too far in focusing almost exclusively on instances of cooperation?

Answer 6

Bernstein

Question 7

What approach is taken by Shafir?

Answer 7

‘Colonial perspective’ - central features of Jewish settlement not the result of ideology but strategic responses to detrimental effect of Arab labour

Question 8

Who argues that the Histadrut’s policies were less the result of internal dynamics, and more strategic structural choices in response to outside forces?

Answer 8

Shalev

Question 9

What three paradigmatic frameworks can we use to look at the Israel-Palestine conflict?

Answer 9

National, colonial, sectarian (unusual?)

Question 10

How does Tamari suggest we look at ‘Arab Jews’/Mizrahi Jews?

Answer 10

As ‘Jewish Arabs’, i.e. as Arabs of Jewish background like Christian Arabs

Question 11

What fraction of those executed by the British were Mizrahi?

Answer 11

50%

Question 12

How many Jews are there by 1948?

Answer 12

600,000

Question 13

What does Shenhav argue limited the impact of Zionist discourse on Sephardi Jews?

Answer 13

The fact that there were already in ‘Zion’, undermining the appeal of ‘Return to Zion’.

Question 14

How does Elyachar, retrospectively, interpret ethnic/religious mixing?

Answer 14

As formalised rituals between confessional groups

Question 15

When does Cohen argue was the key date in the conception of a distinct JZ society/community?

Answer 15

1929

Question 16

What are the two ways we can look at mandatory Palestine’s economy?

Answer 16

Separate economies or single economy with sectorial differences

Question 17

What was the role in terms of facilitating economic cooperation/separation of elites, according to Bernstein?

Answer 17

Both sides attempted to restrict economic exchanges between the communities

Question 18

Who was the main theoretician of the Split Labour Market?

Answer 18

Bonacich

Question 19

How many occupations and institutions were identified by the JA’s Arab Department as mixing J/A?

Answer 19

25 including trucking, shipping, telecommunications, journalism

Question 20

In what sector does Bernstein argue there was significant competition?

Answer 20

Haifa construction

Question 21

Who showed the dependence of Mahne Yehueda market on Arab cultivators?

Answer 21

Shrem

Question 22

Who owned a mixed bar in Jerusalem and what was it called?

Answer 22

Max Hesse, Finks

Question 23

Who has stressed separatism based on contrasting demographics? i.e. western vs. agrarian indigenous movement

Answer 23

Metzer

Question 24

Who dismisses the novelty of Lockman’s argument and why?

Answer 24

Shapira - encounters largely insignificant. Substantial interaction highlighted ages ago by historians.

Question 25

What fraction of the railways employment force Jewish?

Answer 25

8-12%

Question 26

When had some Arab rail workers tried to join the Histadrut?

Answer 26

1921

Question 27

What radical leftist group won control of the RWA?

Answer 27

Workers of the Zion Left

Question 28

From when were there separate railway unions?

Answer 28

1925

Question 29

Which kibbutz-based movement initially advocated for a binational Palestine?

Answer 29

Hasher Hatza’ir

Question 30

Who does Bernstein argue was more likely to prioritise immediate class interests?

Answer 30

Those social actors closest to the grassroots

Question 31

What internal struggle has been identified by Franzeen?

Answer 31

That between traditional communist party line and Yishuvism. Reconciling Zionist and Communist ideas.

Question 32

Which prominent Jewish figure was involved in discussions with prominent Arabs over binational regime?

Answer 32

Frumkin

Question 33

What term was not used in local Hebrew sources until 20th century?

Answer 33

‘Jewish Quarter’

Question 34

What began to shut down in the 1930s, according to Klein?

Answer 34

Jewish stores near Jaffa Gate

Question 35

What fraction of land bought in the early 1930s was in Jaffa?

Answer 35

17.7%

Question 36

Who initiated separation in Haifa, according to Bernstein

Answer 36

Jewish communities - separate neighbourhoods, communal institutions, economic enterprises - “wide-ranging, pervasive attempt at separation”

Question 37

Who argues that the European modern Hebrew society dominated both Arabs and Oriental Jews in Mandatory Haifa?

Answer 37

Kidron

Question 38

How many expressions, idioms, words, etc. from Arabic were found in a study of ‘Palestinian Yiddish’ from the 1930s?

Answer 38

700

Question 39

What late-Ottoman Jewish newspaper referred to local Jews as ‘Ottoman subjects’, etc.?

Answer 39

Habatselet.

Question 40

When was there a peaceful anti-Zionist protect?

Answer 40

October 1933

Question 41

What was established by collaborators in the early 1920s as a counter to Muslim-Christian Associations?

Answer 41

Muslim National Associations

Question 42

What was a fundamental limit on collaboration?

Answer 42

As argued by Heacock and Nassar - exclusivity of Zionism - could never become convinced Zionists.

Question 43

What has Gordon argued about collaboration?

Answer 43

That it was not only a common occurrence but a defining aspect of Palestinian society and politics

Question 44

Name two members of the ‘Group of Five’?

Answer 44

Smilansky and Frumkin

Question 45

By what was the Group of Five’s proposal prompted?

Answer 45

1936 General Strike

Question 46

Which Jewish group had previously called for negotiations and were willing to give up idea of Jewish majority?

Answer 46

Brith Shalom

Question 47

How has Shafir described the approach taken by the Group of Five?

Answer 47

Capitalist binationalism