Jonathan Gribetz (Princeton): "Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter"
Department: Jewish Studies
Date and Time: May 4, 2015 | 5:00 PM-6:30 PMEvent Location: HIB 135
Event Details
Jonathan Gribetz (Princeton University)
Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter
Monday, May 4, 2015 at 5pm
Humanities Instructional Building 135
Jonathan Gribetz will speak about his new book, Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter. Gribetz argues that the current focus on how to divide the territory of Palestine-Israel between Jews and Arabs obscures the fact that the encounter between these groups in early twentieth-century Palestine was imagined in ways that often had little to do with territory or borders. In his lecture, Gribetz will discuss how understanding the importance of two categories of mutual perception--religion and race--helps us better to understand the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Jonathan Gribetz is assistant professor of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies at Princeton University.
This Program is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Rose Project of the Jewish Federation.