The Arab Jews

Author : Yehouda A. Shenhav
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Bashir Bashir,Leila Farsakh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : David K. Shipler
Publisher : Crown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780553447514

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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 : Norman A. Stillman
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : 0827611552

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The Jews of Arab Lands by Norman A. Stillman Pdf

Author : Massoud Hayoun
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Ella Shohat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786800497

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On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements by Ella Shohat Pdf

Author : Georges Bensoussan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Jacob Lassner,Ilan S. Troen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461638094

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

Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has had and will continue to have enormous influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive themselves and each other. Jews and Muslims in the Arab World describes the ways in which the past is absorbed, internalized, and then processed among Jews and Arabs. The book stresses the importance of historical imagination on the current evolving political cultures, but does not claim that explanations from an ancient past shed light on every aspect of contemporary events.

Author : Abraham L. Udovitch,Lucette Valensi,Jacques Perez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317304548

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The Last Arab Jews by Abraham L. Udovitch,Lucette Valensi,Jacques Perez Pdf

The once numerous and vital Jewish communities of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia have disappeared, succumbing during the past century to the assimilating temptations of French culture, or, more recently, to the pressures of migration. Only the two communities of the island of Jerba still remain. Only they have succeeded in maintaining and reproducing their religious and social institutions, in adjusting to the new realities around them while preserving intact their cultural, communal identity. This lavishly-illustrated book, first published in 1984, portrays the life and history of two Jerban Jewish villages and explores the paradoxes of their continuity. How and why are they so fully Jewish while, at the same time, so thoroughly embedded in their Muslim, North African environment? Although its focus is one small ethnic group, the implications of this study extend to the broad subject of relations between Arabs and Jews in modern times.

Author : Haim Yacobi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134065837

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The Jewish-Arab City by Haim Yacobi Pdf

Mixed city is a term widely used in Israel to describe areas occupied by both Jewish and Arab communities. In a critical examination of such cities, the author shows how a clear spatial and mental division exists between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and how the occurrence of such communities is both exceptional and involuntary. Looking at Jewish-Arab relations in Israel in the context of the built environment, it is argued that there are complex links between socio-political relations and the production of contested urban space. The case study of one particular Jewish-Arab "mixed city", the city of Lod, is used as the platform for wider theoretical discussion and political analysis. This city has great significance in the present global context, as more and more cities are becoming polarized, ghettoized, and fragmented in surprisingly similar ways. This book examines the visible planning apparatuses and the "hidden" mechanisms of social, political, and cultural control involved in these processes. Focusing on the spatialities of power, this book brings to the fore a critical discussion of the urban processes that shape Jewish-Arab "mixed cities" in Israel, and will be of interest to students and scholars of Urban Studies, Middle East Studies and Politics in general.

Author : Gil Anidjar
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0804748241

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The Jew, the Arab by Gil Anidjar Pdf

This book argues that in "Christian Europe," the question of the enemy has for millennia been structured by the historical relation of Europe to both Arab and Jew. It provides a philosophical understanding of the background of the current conflict in the Middle East.

Author : David N. Myers
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : Reuven Snir
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004289109

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Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity? by Reuven Snir Pdf

In Who Needs Arab-Jewish Identity?: Interpellation, Exclusion, and Inessential Solidarities, Reuven Snir presents a fresh approach to the study of Arab-Jewish identity showing that singularity, not identity, has become the major war cry among Arabized Jews.

Author : Abigail Jacobson,Moshe Naor
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Joshua Schreier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813547947

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Arabs of the Jewish Faith by Joshua Schreier Pdf

Exploring how Algerian Jews responded to and appropriated France's newly conceived "civilizing mission" in the mid-nineteenth century, Arabs of the Jewish Faith shows that the ideology, while rooted in French Revolutionary ideals of regeneration, enlightenment, and emancipation, actually developed as a strategic response to the challenges of controlling the unruly and highly diverse populations of Algeria's coastal cities.