Abstract
This article will focus on the roots of Arabic instruction in Jewish
society at the end of the Ottoman period in Palestine and in Mandatory Pales
tine. I shall center my attention on two leading institutions: The Reali Hebrew
School in Haifa that was established in 1913 and rapidly became the leading
school for the teaching of Arabic in Jewish society in Palestine; and the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, established in 1925 and, beginning in 1926, founded
the only academic center for the teaching of Islam and Arabic – the School
of Oriental Studies. I shall show how these two institutions drew upon the
classic philological approach to the teaching of Arabic that stemmed from the
transmission of oriental knowledge from Germany to Palestine and was found
ed by Jewish academics who had been educated at German universities. I shall
further claim that over the course of time – from the 1940s and more rapidly
after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 – the dominant approach
to the teaching of Arabic changed into centering more on practical usage and
less on classical German philology, but nonetheless the basic principles of the
instructional framework remained that of German philology.
society at the end of the Ottoman period in Palestine and in Mandatory Pales
tine. I shall center my attention on two leading institutions: The Reali Hebrew
School in Haifa that was established in 1913 and rapidly became the leading
school for the teaching of Arabic in Jewish society in Palestine; and the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, established in 1925 and, beginning in 1926, founded
the only academic center for the teaching of Islam and Arabic – the School
of Oriental Studies. I shall show how these two institutions drew upon the
classic philological approach to the teaching of Arabic that stemmed from the
transmission of oriental knowledge from Germany to Palestine and was found
ed by Jewish academics who had been educated at German universities. I shall
further claim that over the course of time – from the 1940s and more rapidly
after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 – the dominant approach
to the teaching of Arabic changed into centering more on practical usage and
less on classical German philology, but nonetheless the basic principles of the
instructional framework remained that of German philology.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Linguistik der Interkulturalität |
| Subtitle of host publication | Dimensionen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes |
| Editors | Veronika Elisabeth Kunkel, Silvia Bonacchi, Daniel Hugo Rellstab, Jorg Roche, gesine Lenore Schiewer, Joachim Warmbold |
| Publisher | Ergon |
| Pages | 49-66 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783987400872 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783987400865 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |