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Abigail Jacobson
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Occupation
Lecturer
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
Urban Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Israel
Ottoman Empire
Palestine
The Levant
Specialties
Palestinian Hist
Social & Labor Hist
Communism In The Middle East
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Hebrew (native)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2006 | History | University of Chicago
MA | 2000 | Hist | Tel Aviv U, Israel
Abstracts
Between National Liberation and Anti-Colonial Struggle: The National Liberation League in Palestine Jews from Middle East Descent and Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandatory Palestine Welfare, Politics and Power: The “Politics of Welfare” in World War I Jerusalem