Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948

In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociological literature on Palestine in this period, Comrades and Enemies avoids treating the Arab and Jewish communities as if they developed independently of each other. Instead of focusing on politics, diplomacy, or military history, Lockman draws on detailed archival research in both Arabic and Hebrew, and on interviews with activists, to delve into the country's social, economic, and cultural history, showing how Arab and Jewish societies in Palestine helped to shape each other in significant ways.

Comrades and Enemies presents a narrative of Arab-Jewish relations in Palestine that extends and complicates the conventional story of primordial identities, total separation, and unremitting conflict while going beyond both Zionist and Palestinian nationalist mythologies and paradigms of interpretation.

Author: Zachary Lockman
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 07/10/1996
Pages: 443
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.03w x 1.15d
ISBN13: 9780520204195
ISBN10: 0520204190
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations
- History | Middle East | General

About the Author
Zachary Lockman is Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures at New York University.