Trials in tainted space disarm bomb10/22/2023 Virtually all of my time in Washington was devoted either to writing or to caring for my daughter, and as a result I did not get to know many of my colleagues there as well as I would have liked. I would particularly like to thank the Center's director at the time, Natalie Zemon Davis, whose intellectual and personal example, leadership skills, and moral support helped make my year in Princeton especially productive and happy.Ī year's fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., enabled me to finish a first draft of this book and get a lot of other work done as well. The focus of the Center's inquiry in that period, “Colonialism, Imperialism and the Colonial Aftermath,” fit in very nicely with my own project, and I learned a lot from (and enjoyed the company of) the other fellows, the scholars who came through each week to present their work, and the many Princeton University faculty and graduate students whom I got to know (or know better). Not only was I freed of teaching responsibilities for a year, I was also immersed in an environment that was simultaneously intellectually stimulating and socially pleasant. I am grateful to all of them, as well as to the veterans of some of the political and social struggles discussed in this book who consented to be interviewed.Ī fellowship at Princeton University's Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies in 1991–92 enabled me to make many leaps forward, great and small, in the conceptualization and writing of this book. Yosef Vashitz kindly provided me with a copy of his unpublished manuscript on Jews and Arabs in Haifa during the mandate period. Simha Tzabari was particularly supportive of (and perhaps even excited about) my project, probably because I was studying a piece of the history she had lived through (and sought to shape) as a communist activist. While in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories my thinking about what I was doing benefited from conversations with many people, among them Musa Budeiri, David De Vries, Lev Luis Grinberg, Reuven Kaminer, Michael Shalev, and Salim Tamari. Me’ir Lamm granted me permission to use the MAKI papers at the Hakibbutz Hame’uhad archives at Yad Tabenkin. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Archives in Jerusalem very kindly gave me permission to use the photograph which appears on the cover of this book. The same applies to the staff of the Hashomer Hatza‘ir archives (Merkaz Te‘ud Veheker shel Hashomer Hatza‘ir) at Giv‘at Haviva, recently renamed Yad Me’ir Ya‘ari in honor of the movement's founder and longtime leader. The Lavon Institute's staff were always helpful and efficient I thank them, though I suspect that not all of them will be entirely happy with the fruits of my labors. In Israel I spent a great deal of time at the Histadrut archives, known formally as Arkhiyon Ha‘avoda Vehehalutz, at the Makhon Lavon Leheker Tnu‘at Ha‘avoda in Tel Aviv. A fellowship from the Social Science Research Council supported research in the United Kingdom. A preliminary trip was funded by a faculty research support grant from the Harvard Graduate Society, while an extended stay in 1987 was made possible by a fellowship from the Fulbright Scholar Program. I carried out the bulk of the archival and library research for this book in Israel. Though I cannot hope to thank all of them properly, I would like at least to mention those who contributed most significantly and directly, though none of them bears any responsibility for my analyses or judgments in this book, or for any errors it may contain. Many people and institutions contributed in different ways to the research, thinking, and writing that went into this book. Īnd my daughter, Talya Mara Lockman-Fine Acknowledgments Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996. For my father, Michael Lockman (1912–1994),
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