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Palestinian Jews or Jewish Palestinians (Hebrew: יְהוּדִים פָלַסְטִינִים; Arabic: اليهود الفلسطينيين) were the Jews who inhabited Palestine (alternatively the Land of Israel) prior to the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel on 14 May 1948.
Beginning in the 19th century,[1] the collective Jewish communities of Ottoman Syria and then of Mandatory Palestine were commonly referred to as the Yishuv (ישוב, lit. 'settlement'). A distinction is drawn between the New Yishuv and the Old Yishuv: the New Yishuv was largely composed of and descended from Jews who had immigrated to the Levant during the First Aliyah (1881–1903); while the Old Yishuv comprised the Palestinian Jewish community that had already existed in the region before the consolidation of Zionism and the First Aliyah.
In addition to applying to Jews who lived in Palestine during the British Mandate, the term "Palestinian Jew" has been applied to the Jewish residents of Southern Syria under the Ottoman Empire. There are also historical scholarly instances in which the Jewish populations of Palaestina Prima and Palaestina Secunda in the Byzantine Empire are referred to as Palestinian Jews.[2]
Following the dissolution of the British Mandate in 1948, the entire Palestinian Jewish populace was absorbed by Israeli citizenship law. Since then, the term "Palestinian Jew" has largely fallen into disuse, though some Israeli Jews may refer to themselves as Palestinians in historical or political contexts.
- ^ "Yishuv". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
- ^ Masalha, Nur (2016). "The Concept of Palestine: The Conception Of Palestine from the Late Bronze Age to the Modern Period". Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies. 15 (2): 175, 188. doi:10.3366/hlps.2016.0140. ISSN 2054-1988.