Zion in Babel
Zion in Babel
The Yishuv in Its Arabic-Speaking Context
This chapter looks at the scope of Jewish engagement with Arabic in Jewish communities and organizations in Palestine. It addresses four discrete but interlinked ways and settings in which some Jews encountered, sought out, or deployed Arabic: community Arabic courses provided to kibbutz dwellers and other agricultural communities in rural regions of the country; Jewish contact with Arabic in the region of Tel Aviv; intelligence and military operations that gathered information about communal goings-on through the use of Jews who knew Arabic; and Zionist Arabic-language newspapers aimed to affect Arab public opinion. It shows that Arabic knowledge and use appeared to be a solution to both the apparent impossibility of future harmony and the loss of a past coexistence.
Keywords: Jewish engagement, Arabic, Jewish communities, Jewish organizations, Arabic courses, kibbutz dwellers, Tel Aviv, intelligence, military operations, Zionist
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