What can a textual artifact such as a journal’s table of contents tell us about a particular literary culture? Quite a lot, it turns out, when one begins to excavate the political and cultural networks and practices of a period that are revealed therein. A closer look at the table above, from the Haifa-based, Arabic-language journal, “al-Jadid [The New]: A cultural, social and political magazine,” first published in 1953, provides a snapshot of a campaign aimed at reconstructing an anti-colonial Arabic literary and cultural scene among Palestinians and some anti-Zionist Arab Jews, inside Israel after the Nakba. The contents reveal a largely unknown network of literary correspondence with the Arab World, internationalist communist and anti-colonial intellectuals and writers, as well as supportive events and forums established to encourage the growth of local literature during the 1950’s and early 60’s.