Jews And Arabs

Author : Yehouda A. Shenhav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0804752966

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The Arab Jews by Yehouda A. Shenhav Pdf

This book is about the social history of the Arab Jews—Jews living in Arab countries—against the backdrop of Zionist nationalism. By using the term "Arab Jews" (rather than "Mizrahim," which literally means "Orientals") the book challenges the binary opposition between Arabs and Jews in Zionist discourse, a dichotomy that renders the linking of Arabs and Jews in this way inconceivable. It also situates the study of the relationships between Mizrahi Jews and Ashkenazi Jews in the context of early colonial encounters between the Arab Jews and the European Zionist emissaries—prior to the establishment of the state of Israel and outside Palestine. It argues that these relationships were reproduced upon the arrival of the Arab Jews to Israel. The book also provides a new prism for understanding the intricate relationships between the Arab Jews and the Palestinian refugees of 1948, a link that is usually obscured or omitted by studies that are informed by Zionist historiography. Finally, the book uses the history of the Arab Jews to transcend the assumptions necessitated by the Zionist perspective, and to open the door for a perspective that sheds new light on the basic assumptions upon which Zionism was founded.

Author : Georges Bensoussan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253038586

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Jews in Arab Countries by Georges Bensoussan Pdf

In this new history, French author Georges Bensoussan retells the story of what life was like for Jews in the Arab world since 1850. During the early years of this time, it was widely believed that Jewish life in Arab lands was peaceful. Jews were protected by law and suffered much less violence, persecution, and inequality. Bensoussan takes on this myth and looks back over the history of Jewish-Arab relations in Arab countries. He finds that there is little truth to the myth and forwards a nuanced history of interrelationship that is not only diverse, but deals with local differences in cultural, religious, and political practice. Bensoussan divides the work into sections that cover 1850 to the end of WWI, from 1919 to the eve of WWII and then from WWII to the establishment of Israel and the Arab Wars. A new afterword brings the history of Jewish and Arab relations into the present day. Bensoussan has determined that the history of Jews in Arab countries is a history of slowly disintegrating relationships, increasing tension, violence, and persecution.

Author : Massoud Hayoun
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781620974582

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When We Were Arabs by Massoud Hayoun Pdf

WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar's son, the Jewish Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his family's story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost. When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award–winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle.

Author : David K. Shipler
Publisher : Crown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780553447521

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Arab and Jew by David K. Shipler Pdf

The expanded and updated edition of David Shipler's Pulitzer Prize-winning book that examines the relationship, past and present, between Arabs and Jews In this monumental work, extensively researched and more relevant than ever, David Shipler delves into the origins of the prejudices that exist between Jews and Arabs that have been intensified by war, terrorism, and nationalism. Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indoctrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historical conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more. And he writes of the people: the Arab woman in love with a Jew, the retired Israeli military officer, the Palestinian guerrilla, the handsome actor whose father is Arab and whose mother is Jewish. For Shipler, and for all who read this book, their stories and hundreds of others reflect not only the reality of "wounded spirits" but also a glimmer of hope for eventual coexistence in the Promised Land.

Author : S.D. Goitein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486121260

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Jews and Arabs by S.D. Goitein Pdf

Fascinating study by eminent scholar explores 3,000 years of relations between Jews and Arabs. Topics include Jewish traditions in Islam, Islamic influence on Jewish philosophy, Jewish and Islamic mysticism and poetry.

Author : Ammiel Alcalay
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0816621543

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After Jews and Arabs by Ammiel Alcalay Pdf

Alcalay (Hebrew literature, City U. of New York) argues that the very elements of the historical relations between Jews and Arabs, and the nature of the Levant itself, provide tools for resolving the current situation in the Middle East. His sections cover discontinued lines drafts for an itinerary,

Author : Norman A. Stillman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : 0827611552

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The Jews of Arab Lands by Norman A. Stillman Pdf

Author : Shelomo Dov Goitein
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002985805

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Jews and Arabs by Shelomo Dov Goitein Pdf

Author : Bashir Bashir,Leila Farsakh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231199201

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The Arab and Jewish Questions - Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond by Bashir Bashir,Leila Farsakh Pdf

Author : Alan Dowty
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
ISBN : 9780253038661

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Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine by Alan Dowty Pdf

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1929. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, arguing that this historical approach highlights constant clashes between religious and ethnic groups in Palestine. He demonstrates that existing Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European and shares evidence of overwhelming hostility to foreigners from European lands. He shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the inconvenient hostility of the existing population. Dowty's thorough research reveals how events that occurred over 125 years ago shaped the implacable conflict that dominates the Middle East today.

Author : Abigail Jacobson,Moshe Naor
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512600070

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Oriental Neighbors by Abigail Jacobson,Moshe Naor Pdf

Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbors in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyzes the meaning of the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity that existed among Oriental Jews, and discusses their unique role as political, social, and cultural mediators between Jews and Arabs. Integrating Mandatory Palestine and its inhabitants into the contemporary Semitic-Levantine surroundings, Oriental Neighbors illuminates broad areas of cooperation and coexistence, which coincided with conflict and friction, between Oriental and Sephardi Jews and their Arab neighbors. The book brings the Oriental Jewish community to the fore, examines its role in the Zionist nation-building process, and studies its diverse and complex links with the Arab community in Palestine.

Author : David N. Myers
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781584658153

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Between Jew and Arab by David N. Myers Pdf

An exploration of the fascinating Jewish thinker Simon Rawidowicz and his provocative views on Arab refugees and the fate of Israel

Author : Jacob Lassner,Selwyn Ilan Troen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0742558428

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Jews and Muslims in the Arab World by Jacob Lassner,Selwyn Ilan Troen Pdf

Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has an influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive themselves. This work highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics.

Author : Albert Memmi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Jewish-Arab relations
ISBN : UOM:39015046456557

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Jews and Arabs by Albert Memmi Pdf

... Memmi builds a strong case for Israel while at the same time pointing the way-perhaps the only way-for its survival among its Arab neighbors. -- cover

Author : Menachem Klein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190257187

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Lives in Common by Menachem Klein Pdf

Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron-and their intermingled Jewish, Muslim and Christian inhabitants, from the nineteenth century to the present. Each of them was and still is a mixed city. Jerusalem and Hebron are holy places, while Jaffa till 1948 was Palestine's principal city and main port of entry. Klein portrays a society in the late Ottoman period in which Jewish-Arab interactions were intense, frequent, and meaningful, before the onset of segregation and separation gradually occurred in the Mandate era. The unequal power relations and increasing violence between Jews and Arabs from 1948 onwards are also scrutinised. Throughout, Klein bases his writing not on the official record but rather on a hitherto hidden private world of Jewish-Arab encounters, including marriages and squabbles, kindnesses and cruelties, as set out in dozens of memoirs, diaries, biographies and testimonies. Lives in Common brings together the voices of Jews and Arabs in a mosaic of fascinating stories, of lived experiences and of the major personalities that shaped them over the last 150 years. Most books dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict see events through the eyes of policy-makers, generals or diplomats. Menachem Klein offers an illuminating alternative by telling the intertwined histories, from street level upwards, of three cities-Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Hebron-and their intermingled Jewish, Muslim and Christian inhabitants, from the nineteenth century to the present. Each of them was and still is a mixed city. Jerusalem and Hebron are holy places, while Jaffa till 1948 was Palestine's principal city and main port of entry. Klein portrays a society in the late Ottoman period in which Jewish-Arab interactions were intense, frequent, and meaningful, before the onset of segregation and separation gradually occurred in the Mandate era. The unequal power relations and increasing violence between Jews and Arabs from 1948 onwards are also scrutinised. Throughout, Klein bases his writing not on the official record but rather on a hitherto hidden private world of Jewish-Arab encounters, including marriages and squabbles, kindnesses and cruelties, as set out in dozens of memoirs, diaries, biographies and testimonies. Lives in Common brings together the voices of Jews and Arabs in a mosaic of fascinating stories, of lived experiences and of the major personalities that shaped them over the last 150 years.