“Sons of Shem:” Visions for Jewish-Arab Integration and Semitism in the Second Aliyah (1904-1914)

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dc.contributor.advisorHazkani, Shayen_US
dc.contributor.authorMark, Maytalen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-13T05:38:59Z
dc.date.available2021-07-13T05:38:59Z
dc.date.issued2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines a cohort of Zionist intellectuals based in and around Ottoman Palestine who advocated for Jewish-Arab integration in the Second Aliyah period, or roughly 1904-1914. In studying individuals who came from diverse linguistic, ethnic, and political backgrounds side by side, this thesis argues that their shared language around Semitic identity and their advocacy around the same set of civic goals suggests a shared worldview and a common understanding of the goals of Zionism as a movement. The existence of such a cohort suggests a re-examination of the nature of the Zionist movement as well as a re-evaluation of Sephardi-Ashkenazi relations in this period. In addition, by studying the discourse around Semitic identity as it was adopted and repurposed by members of this cohort, this thesis argues that late nineteenth and early twentieth century racial categories and theories influenced Zionist thought in complex ways, providing both a sense of evidence for the supposed indigeneity of Jews to Palestine as well as a logical basis for future coexistence with Palestinian Arab Muslims.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/s9xn-dgjb
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/27399
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledJudaic studiesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMiddle Eastern historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArab-Jewish relationsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIntegrationisten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledMizrahi Jewsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOttoman Palestineen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSemitismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledZionismen_US
dc.title“Sons of Shem:” Visions for Jewish-Arab Integration and Semitism in the Second Aliyah (1904-1914)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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