Description: A fresh look at Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine under the British Mandate
Review Quotes: "Jacobson and Naor assert that what united the Mizrahi Jews during this period "was their deep confidence that they could serve as mediators between Jews and Arabs." One of the factors was their fluency in Arabic. . . . The shared language enabled Mizrahi Jews to maintain meaningful relationships with Muslim and Christian Arabs; and, achieving quite different purposes, it also afforded them opportunities to collect intelligence and play a strategic role as the drive for Jewish statehood intensified."-- "The Jewish News of Northern California"