%0 Journal Article %1 yazbak_templars_1999 %A Yazbak, Mahmoud %D 1999 %J Journal of Palestine Studies %K Palaestina, Tempelgesellschaft 19.Jh. %N 4 %P 40--54 %T Templars as Proto-Zionists? The "German Colony" in Late Ottoman Haifa %U http://www.jstor.org/stable/2538391 %V 28 %X Zionist historiography depicts mid-nineteenth-century German colonists in Palestine as forerunners of the Zionist movement, much as the early Zionists themselves had adopted them as ä model to be emulated." Using the recently discovered Haifa sijill and other local sources, the author reveals how the Templars appeared in the eyes of the Palestinians in whose country they came to settle. The rather different flip side of the Zionist portrayal that emerges suggests that the model can be reversed and extended into the present.

@article{yazbak_templars_1999, abstract = {Zionist historiography depicts mid-nineteenth-century German colonists in Palestine as forerunners of the Zionist movement, much as the early Zionists themselves had adopted them as "a model to be emulated." Using the recently discovered Haifa sijill and other local sources, the author reveals how the Templars appeared in the eyes of the Palestinians in whose country they came to settle. The rather different flip side of the Zionist portrayal that emerges suggests that the model can be reversed and extended into the present.}, added-at = {2010-02-21T15:10:18.000+0100}, author = {Yazbak, Mahmoud}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24b663cc9b663c4770875d68deda7a587/avs}, interhash = {e3b6727dd01db561d7419a811a34993f}, intrahash = {4b663cc9b663c4770875d68deda7a587}, issn = {{0377919X}}, journal = {Journal of Palestine Studies}, keywords = {Palaestina, Tempelgesellschaft 19.Jh.}, note = {{ArticleType:} primary\_article / Full publication date: Summer, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 University of California Press}, number = 4, pages = {40--54}, shorttitle = {Templars as {Proto-Zionists?}}, timestamp = {2012-09-30T11:08:27.000+0200}, title = {Templars as {Proto-Zionists?} The {"German} Colony" in Late Ottoman Haifa}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2538391}, volume = 28, year = 1999 }