Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist

By Najati Sidqi, Introduction by Margaret Litvin This article is a repost from Jewish Currents, where this text was originally published. Muhammad Najati Sidqi. Photo from a collection by A. Ben Salem. In the opening chapter of his posthumously published memoir, the activist and intellectual Najati Sidqi (1905–1979) wryly recalls how, in the early 1920s, “Jewish immigration to Palestine brought customs, ideas, and social practices alien to the conditions of Arab life” there. He reminisces ab...