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HILLEL COHEN YEAR ZERO OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT 1929 Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies Editors ➢ S. Ilan Troen ➢ Jehuda Reinharz ➢ Sylvia Fuks Fried The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies publishes original scholarship of exceptional significance on the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. It draws on disciplines across the academy, from anthropology, sociology, political science, and international relations to the arts, history, and literature. It seeks to further an understanding of Israel within the context of the modern Middle East and the modern Jewish experience. There is special interest in developing publications that enrich the university curriculum and enlighten the public at large. The series is published under the auspices of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. For a complete list of books in this series, please see www.upne.com Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 Calvin Goldscheider, Israeli Society in the Twenty-First Century: Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict Yigal Schwartz, The Zionist Paradox: Hebrew Literature and Israeli Identity Anat Helman, Becoming Israeli: National Ideals and Everyday Life in the 1950s Tuvia Friling, A Jewish Kapo in Auschwitz: History, Memory, and the Politics of Survival Motti Golani, Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945–1947 Ilana Szobel, A Poetics of Trauma: The Work of Dahlia Ravikovitch Anita Shapira, Israel: A History Orit Rozin, The Rise of the Individual in 1950s Israel: A Challenge to Collectivism Boaz Neumann, Land and Desire in Early Zionism Anat Helman, Young Tel Aviv: A Tale of Two Cities Nili Scharf Gold, Yehuda Amichai: The Making of Israel’s National Poet Itamar Rabinovich and Jehuda Reinharz, editors, Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present Published in cooperation with the Israel Institute YEAR ZERO OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT 1929 Hillel Cohen Translated by Haim Watzman Brandeis University Press ➢ Waltham, Massachusetts Brandeis University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com © 2015 Brandeis University All rights reserved For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Published in Hebrew as TaRPa’’T: shnat haefes basikhsukh hayehudi-aravi by Keter Jerusalem, 2013 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cohen, Hillel, author. [Tarpat. English.] Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 / Hillel Cohen; translated by Haim Watzman. pages cm. — (The Schusterman series in Israel studies) “P ublished in cooperation with the Israel Institute.” Includes bibliographical references. isbn 978-1-61168-810-8 (cloth: alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-61168-811-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) — isbn 978-1-61168-812-2 (ebook) 1. Arab-Israeli conflict —History. 2. Jewish-Arab relations. 3. Palestine —History —Arab riots, 1929. I. Title. ds119.7.C6323413 2015 956.94'04 —dc23 2015004536 Dedicated to the rescuers, Jews and Arabs, and to the memory of my parents, Esther and Aharon Contents Introduction ➢ xi Chronological Overview of the Events ➢ xvii Casualties in the 1929 Riots ➢ xxi 1 Jaffa and Tel Aviv Sunday, August 25, 1929 ➢ 1 2 Jerusalem Friday, August 23, 1929 ➢ 59 3 Hebron Saturday, August 24, 1929 ➢ 122 4 Motza Saturday, August 24, 1929 ➢ 166 5 Safed Thursday, August 29, 1929 ➢ 188 6 After the Storm A Postmortem ➢ 207 Afterword ➢ 255 Acknowledgments ➢ 261 Bibliography ➢ 263 Index ➢ 273

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Winner of the Azrieli Award for Best Book in Israel StudiesIn late summer 1929, a countrywide outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. In contrast with those who point to the wars of 1948 and 1967, historian Hillel Cohen marks these bloody ev
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