Two Arabic-speaking Jewish guards worked in the European Jewish agricultural colony of Petah Tikva soon after its founding, northeast of Ja a, in 1878: Daud abu Yusuf from Baghdad and Yaʿqub bin Maymun Zirmati, a Maghribi Jew from Ja a. The two men, who worked as traders among Bedouin but were recruited for a short time by the colony, o er a rare glimpse of contacts between Ashkenazi and Middle Eastern Jews in rural Jewish colonies established in the last quarter of the 19th century, colonies that are often regarded as detached from their local and Ottoman landscape. The article rst argues that Zionist sources constructed these two men as bridges to the East in their roles as teachers of Arabic and perceived sources of legitimization for the European Jewish settlement project. It then reads beyond the sparse details o ered in Ashkenazi Zionist sources to resituate these men in their broad imperial and regional context and argue that, contrary to the local Zionist accounts, the colony was in fact likely to have been marginal to these men’s commercial and personal lives.

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交易秘密：早期佩塔蒂克瓦农业殖民地的两个中东犹太卫队的建筑和背景

1878 年，在欧洲犹太农业殖民地佩塔提克瓦 (Petah Tikva) 建立后不久，两名讲阿拉伯语的犹太守卫在贾阿东北部成立：巴格达的 Daud abu Yusuf 和贾阿的马格里布犹太人 Yaʿqub bin Maymun Zirmati。这两个人在贝都因人中担任商人，但在短时间内被殖民地招募，他们罕见地瞥见了德系犹太人和中东犹太人在 19 世纪最后四分之一建立的农村犹太殖民地的接触，这些殖民地通常被认为与当地和奥斯曼帝国的景观脱节。文章首先认为，犹太复国主义的资料来源将这两个人作为通往东方的桥梁，扮演着阿拉伯语教师的角色，并认为是欧洲犹太人定居项目合法化的来源。