Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought

Foreword • Acknowledgments • Editors’ Note • Introduction: Mizrahi and Modern Middle Eastern Thought, Present and Past – Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite • AVRAHAM ELMALEH • East and West • YA‘QUB SANNU‘ • Some Teachings of the Koran • Transvaal’s Exemplary Rebels • The Koran • Ottoman Imperial Schools • My Last Dream • John Bull and the Egyptian Student • My Poor Eyes • Letter to Philip Tarrazi • ESTHER AZHARI MOYAL • Address at the American College for Girls in Beirut • Our Renaissance • MURAD FARAG • The War for Our Nation • NISSIM YA‘ACOV MALUL • Our Status in the Country, or the Question of Learning Arabic • BEN-ZION MEIR HAI UZIEL • Angels of Peace • A Speech in the Celebration of My Jubilee • JOSEPH ASLAN CATTAUI PACHA • On Solidarity and on Diversity • HAYYIM BEN-KIKI • European Culture in the East • On the Question of All Questions Concerning the Settling of the Land • MENAHEM SALIH DANIEL • Letter to Chayyim Weizmann • DAVID AVISAR • A Proposal Concerning the Question of Understanding and Reaching an Agreement with the Arabs of the Land of Israel • ELIE (ELIYAHU) ELIACHAR • A Jew of Palestine before the Royal Commission • Jews and Arabs • IBRAHIM AL-KABIR • Evidence Given to Palestine’s Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Which Visited Baghdad • YUSUF HARUN ZILKHA AND SASSON SHALOM DALLAL • Zionism against Arabs and Jews • Last Letter • MARSIL SHIRIZI • Anti-Zionism for the Sake of Jews and the Sake of Egypt • HENRI CURIEL • Egyptian Communists and the Jewish Question • What Ought to Be the First Official Message from the DMNL to the Israeli Communist Party? • Some Clarifications on “Social Democracy” • SAMI MICHAEL • The Newly Arrived Men of Letters • JACQUELINE SHOHET KAHANOFF • Bridge to the Oriental Immigrants • DAVID SITTON • A Call for Deepening “The Mizrahi Consciousness” among Us • AVRAHAM ABBAS • From Ingathering to Integration: The Communal Problem in Israel • Publication Credits • Index