Topic: The Palestine Mandate
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2:30pm-4:30pm | Tu | Candler Library 119 | Kenneth Stein. | 4 | 13434 | TBA. |
Course description: This junior/senior colloquium will review the thirty-year history prior to the creation of Israel in 1948. We shall try to answer the question: why and how did the Zionists succeed in building a national home? And what factors made the Palestinian Arabs become mostly refugees? Using primary and secondary sources we shall review social, economic, and political issues which influenced the development of Zionism, affected the creation of Israel, saw the emergence of Palestinian national identity, and the layering of the cold war over the Arab-Israeli conflict. Students will concentrate on understanding the internal workings of Arab, British, and Zionist communities and their relationships with one another. Students will use a variety of historical sources, including unpublished dissertations, period newspapers, memoirs, monographs, biographies, and novels of the era.
Texts:
- Laurence J. Silberstein (ed.), New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State
- Kenneth W. Stein, The Land Question in Palestine, 1917-1939
- two books to be borrowed from the instructor
- an extensive core of required articles and books available on reserve
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