Based on a diverse array of sources and enlivened with descriptions of teachers' lives and excerpts from students' writings, the monograph fills a major gap in scholarship on the Mandate period and provides a new perspective on the conflict. [...] I highly recommend this monograph for those interested in colonialism, education, nationalist movements, the Mandate period, and Palestine-Israel.
Yoni Furas is a scholar of modern Middle Eastern and Palestinian history, interested in the history of late Ottoman and mandate Palestine, the sociology of Arab knowledge, and cultural aspects of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict. He received his DPhil from Oxford University in 2015 and served as a Thomas Arthur Arnold Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Truman Institute at Hebrew University.