The Arab Jews : a postcolonial reading of nationalism, religion, and ethnicity
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The Arab Jews : a postcolonial reading of nationalism, religion, and ethnicity
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Stanford University Press, 2006
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Yehudim-ha-ʿArvim
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Translated from the Hebrew
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii @toc2:History Begins at Home 000 @toc2:1 The "Discovery" of the Arab Jews 000 @toc2:2 Encounter in Abadan: Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and Jewish Orientalism 000 @toc2:3 How Did the Arab Jews Become Religious and Zionist? 000 @toc2:4 What Do the Arab Jews and the Palestinians Have in Common? Population Exchange, the Right of Return, and the Politics of Reparations 000 @toc2:5 The Arab Jews and Zionist Historical Memory 000 @toc2:Beyond Methodological Zionism 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Select Bibliography 000 Index 000
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