A Zionist-Arab Conversation in Late Ottoman Jerusalem
with Jonathan Gribetz, Princeton University
In this session, we will read Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's report on his interview of Muhammad Ruhi al-Khalidi, published in Ben-Yehuda's Hebrew newspaper Ha-Zvi in 1909. We will consider the topics raised in the conversation and what the interview tells us about this foundational period in the Zionist-Arab encounter.
Jonathan Marc Gribetz is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University. He is the director of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, and the editor of the Association for Jewish Studies journal, the AJS Review. Gribetz is the author of Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter (2014) and Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy (2024).
Located in 060 Page Hall, 1810 College Road, Columbus, OH 43210
Supported by the Thomas and Diann Mann Lecture Series on Jews, America, and Israel
