Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies
Role
Director of the Near Eastern Studies Program
Office Phone
609-258-7298
gribetz@princeton.edu
Office
116 Jones Hall
Bio/Description
Area(s):
History of Palestine and Israel
Jewish-Arab Encounter
Race and Religion in the Modern Middle East
Zionism and Palestinian Nationalism
Jonathan Marc Gribetz is an?associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and?in the Program in Judaic Studies. He teaches about the history of Zionism, Palestine, Israel, Jerusalem, and nationalism in the modern Middle East. His first book,?Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter?(Princeton University Press, 2014), investigated the mutual perceptions of Zionists and Arabs in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showing the prominent place of religious and racial categories in the ways in which these communities imagined and related to one another.?Defining Neighbors?was named a?Choice?Outstanding Academic Title in 2015. Gribetz is currently writing a book on the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center. For the new book, tentatively titled?Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO's Research on Judaism and Israel?(under contract with Princeton University Press), Gribetz has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Before joining the Princeton faculty, Gribetz was an assistant professor of Jewish Studies and History at Rutgers University, a Starr Fellow in Judaica at Harvard University, a Wolfe Fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, and an Amado Fellow at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Gribetz earned a PhD in History from Columbia University, an MSt in Modern Jewish Studies from Oxford University, and an AB in Social Studies from Harvard University.
Selected Publications
?Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City
Leiden: Brill, 2018
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Selected Publications
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"The PLO's Defense of the Talmud," AJS Review?42:2 (2018).
“Arab-Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Sa'id al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi, and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda,” in?Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire, eds.,?Ordinary Jerusalem 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City?(Leiden: Brill, 2018).
“‘This Shameful Document’: Early PLO Intellectuals on the Balfour Declaration and the Hussein-McMahon Correspondence,” Journal of Levantine Studies 8:1 (2018).
"The PLO's Rabbi: Palestinian Nationalism and Reform Judaism,"?Jewish Quarterly Review?107:1 (2017).
“When?The Zionist Idea?Came to Beirut: Judaism, Christianity, and the Palestine Liberation Organization's Translation of Zionism,”??International Journal of Middle East Studies?48:2 (2016).
"Reading Mendelssohn in Late Ottoman Palestine: An Islamic Theory of Jewish Secularism," in?A. Joskowicz and E. Katz, eds.,?Secularism? in Question: Jews and Judaism in Modern Times?(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
Defining Neighbors: Religion, Race, and the Early Zionist-Arab Encounter?(Princeton University Press, 2014).
"'To the Arab Hebrew': On Possibilities and Impossibilities,"?International Journal of Middle East Studies?46:3 (2014).
"'Their Blood is Eastern': Shahin Makaryus and?Fin de Siècle?Arab Pride in the Jewish 'Race,'"?Middle Eastern Studies?49:2 (2013).
"The Question of Palestine Before the International Community, 1924: A Methodological Inquiry into the Charge of 'Bias,'"?Israel Studies?17:1 (2012).
"An Arabic-Zionist Talmud: Shimon Moyal's?At-Talmud,"?Jewish Social Studies?17:1 (2010).