Comrades and Enemies - Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 - Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments section for Zachary Lockman’s book Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. The author credits scholars, institutions, and archivists who supported archival and library research, especially in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. It details funding sources including Harvard, Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, Princeton’s Davis Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and thanks individuals for interviews, manuscript materials, permissions to use photographs, and editorial assistance from the University of California Press.

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Preferred Citation: Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996. [http://ark.cdlib.org/](http://ark.cdlib.org/) [ark:/13030/ft6b69p0hf/](ark:/13030/ft6b69p0hf/) Comrades and Enemies Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906–1948 Zachary Lockman UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · London © 1996 The Regents of the University of California For my father, Michael Lockman (1912–1994), and my daughter, Talya Mara Lockman-Fine Preferred Citation: Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996 1996. [http://ark.cdlib.org/](http://ark.cdlib.org/) [ark:/13030/ft6b69p0hf/](ark:/13030/ft6b69p0hf/) For my father, Michael Lockman (1912–1994), and my daughter, Talya Mara Lockman-Fine Acknowledgments Many people and institutions contributed in different ways to the research, thinking, and writing that went into this book. 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. I carried out the bulk of the archival and library research for this book in Israel. 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. A fellowship from the Social Science Research Council supported research in the United Kingdom. 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. 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. 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. Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi Archives in Jerusalem very kindly gave me permission to use the photograph which appears on the cover of this book. Me’ir Lamm granted me permission to use the MAKI papers at the Hakibbutz Hame’uhad archives at Yad Tabenkin. 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. 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. Yosef Vashitz kindly provided me with a copy of his unpublished manuscript on Jews and Arabs in Haifa during the mandate period. 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. A 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. Not only was Ifreed of teaching responsibilities for a year, I was also immersed in an environment that was simultaneously intellectually stimulating and socially pleasant. 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

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What kinds of support are mentioned for the book’s archival research?

The author describes extensive archival and library work in Israel, supported by multiple grants and fellowships, plus institutional help from research centers and archive staff.

Which institutions provided funding during the research and writing process?

Funding is attributed to programs and fellowships including Harvard Graduate Society support, Fulbright Scholar Program support, Social Science Research Council research support, Princeton’s Davis Center (1991–92), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Who is thanked for contributing comments or helping with the manuscript?

The acknowledgments name multiple scholars who read papers or the manuscript and offered comments, and it also thanks University of California Press staff and the copy editor for editorial work.

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