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זהו סיכום של מחקרים שונים שנעשו על תיאטרון יהודי ואמני תיאטרון במזרח התיכון וצפון אפריקה לפי ארצות ואיזורים. הסיכום הזה נולד כדי להראות היסטוריה נעלמת ומושתקת של תיאטרון היהודי הזה. בכל המחקרים על תיאטרון יהודי יש עיסוק רק באירופה ואמריקה... more

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- Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Jewish Theatre, Mizrahim, Arab Jews, Mizrahi Jews
- by Arie Kizel
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- Israel Studies, Narrative and Identity, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Mizrahi Jews
- by Yaron Tsur
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- Israel Studies, Orientalism, Mizrahim, Israeli Immigration Policy
- by Avi-ram Tzoreff
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- Hebrew Literature, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim

במאמר זה מוצג מחקר הבוחן את תפיסותיהם של יהודים עולים מצפון הקווקז ומזרחו (היהודים ההרריים) בנוגע למקומם ומעמדם בחברה הישראלית. עלייה ותהליכי השתלבות של עולים במדינה חדשה מלווים בקשיים הנובעים מהבדלי תרבות ומנטליות. מצב זה יכול להביא לתהליכים נמרצים במערך מאפייני הזהות של המהגרים הנדרשים להתאים את עצמם לחברה החדשה. עיקר חידושו של המחקר הוא בחשיפת ההתנגשות המתקיימת בין מאפייני זהות שונים שהתגלו במעבר מתרבות לתרבות ובחינת ההשלכות של מפגש הזהויות של בני העדה עם החברה הקולטת על הדימוי הקבוצתי והמעמד החברתי. המחקר נסמך על 30 ראיונות עומק עם בני העדה שהגיעו לישראל עם גלי העלייה של שנות התשעים. הממצאים מצביעים על קונפליקט תרבותי וחברתי בולט בקרב צעירים מהדור וחצי והדור השני, הנובע משלילתה ומאי- שילובה של תרבותם מהקווקז בחברה הישראלית. כמו כן עולים הבדלים בין מבוגרים מהדור הראשון לצעירים מהדור וחצי והדור השני ביחס לשיח הזהויות וההשתלבות החברתית- התרבותית בחברה הישראלית.

- by Alissa Abramov
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- Social Identity, Caucasus, Israeli Culture, Ethnic Identities
- by Sarah Irving
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- Israel Studies, Iraq, Migration Studies, Refugees and Forced Migration Studies
- by Gilly Hartal
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- Ethnicity, Geographies of sexuality, Gay tourism, Mizrahim

הקדמה ותוכן העניינים של הספר לאחותי, פוליטיקה פמיניסטית מזרחית
הספר הינו אסופה, המכילה מגוון מאמרים, מחקרים, נאומים, סיפורים אישיים, פרוזה ושירה. הוא מקבץ 36 כותבות המציגות את חוויית ההדרה שחוות נשים הרואות את עצמן ממוקמות בשוליים הפוליטיים, החברתיים והכלכליים של החברה הישראלית.
תהליך ההתכתבות של המרחב הפמיניסטי המזרחי לדורותיו עם המרחב הציבורי נועד לאפשר קריאה פוליטית של כלל החברה בישראל. זאת מתוך התייחסות לסוגיות של מעמד, זהות, זיכרון ומרחב בטוח.

- by Shlomit Aharoni Lir
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- Israel Studies, Feminism, Ethnic Identity, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies

Using the fantastic poem of Emile Cohen lamenting the end of Iraqi Jewry's long and illustrious sojourn in Babylon/Iraq as a canvas, this commentary seeks to give people a taste of the "Iraq that was" for the Jewish community there, specifically noting its fall. It is intended to hopefully inspire people to further study and interest in this particular community's history.

- by Rachmiel Ezra Travitz and +1
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- Jewish Studies, Arabic Literature, Arabic Poetry, Iraqi History
- by Yigal S. Nizri
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- Mizrahim

This was the first-ever article to describe and analyze the possibility of a One-State Solution for Palestine/Israel from a Mizrahi positionality both in the Hebrew original and the English translation. Its composition -- like all of Lavie's writing about the Mizrahi feminist struggle in the context of the Question of Palestine -- has been fraught with all manner of relentless campaigns by those elements in academia that
would rather have Lavie and her research disappear. Needless to say that shortly after this article saw print in the Hebrew original in 2008 its analysis of the possibility for a one state solution for the Israel/Palestine conflict was appropriated and published without proper quotation or citation.

Offered at Cornell University, Spring 2022. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This class examines modern articulations of identity by and about two distinct Jewish diasporas: Sephardic and Mizrahi Jews. Sephardic Jews trace their origins to the Iberian Peninsula prior to the end of the 15th century. Mizrahim are Jews who lived in the Middle East and North Africa until the mid-20th century, and their descendants. We will explore Sephardic and Mizrahi identities in works of fiction, memoirs, essays, poetry and films produced from the mid-twentieth century to the present. We will trace routes of migration across generations, paying particular attention to how texts construct identity in relation to language and place. Works will be drawn from wide geographic distribution including the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the Americas, and produced in Arabic, English, French, Hebrew, Ladino, and Spanish.

- by Deborah Starr
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- Jewish Literature, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim

This article addresses the work of Mizrahi women artists, i.e., Israeli-Jewish women of Asian or African ethnic origin, using the artist Vered Nissim as a case study. Nissim seeks to affirm the politics of identity and recognition, as... more

- by Tal Dekel
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- Identity politics, Feminist Art, Mizrahim, Israeli Art

Until the conclusion of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, there were roughly 750,000 Jews living in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Algeria and Palestine/Israel. A comparative electronic survey of some 900 journals reveals that when scholars referred to these individuals collectively during the last 200 years they employed some twenty different signifiers. The question I address is simple yet potentially foundational: which collective signifier can define and capture most productively, inclusively and comprehensively the socio-political and cultural experiences of those who comprised the Arab Middle East's ten indigenous Jewish minority communities prior to their dispersal (in the post-1949 armistice period)? I propose that the signifier ‘Arabized-Jews’ exhibits explanatory properties that outweigh those of its alternatives both quantitatively and qualitatively. As such, ‘Arabized-Jews’ denotes Jews who were culturally and/or linguistically Arab yet who did not self-define primarily as Arab, let alone in political terms. In exploring the dialectic interface between ethno-politics, terminological formations and the production of meaning, this article suggests that it makes sense for contemporary scholars to employ ‘Arabized-Jews’ to refer collectively to Jews across the modern Arab Middle East.

- by Moshe Behar
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- Semiotics, Sociology, Social Movements, Ethnic Studies

After 1948, Israel’s governing elites embarked on a rigorous program of state building and settling hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants. In the process, the elites, primarily from the leading Mapai party, developed a process of othering Jewish immigrants from Arab countries, Arab citizens, and Orthodox Jews. They were physically segregated in their own schools and communities, and the elite culture described them as a threat against the European culture of Jewish immigrants from central Europe. The process targeted Mizrahi Jews before moving on to deplore the “demographic threat” of Orthodox Jews and resulted in the current normative hegemonic discourse in Israel that paints numerous groups as threatening the state. This article proposes a four-part model for understanding “the other” in Israel: contemporary denial and nostalgia for a homogenous past, the view of Zionism as a civilizing mission, the application of separation of ethnic groups in planning, and demographic fear of the other. Altogether, they paint a picture of an Israel that has not come to grips with its past, and therefore continues the process of “othering” in its contemporary ethnocratic framework. Combining the analysis of geographic separation, and planning and media, it presents an innovative understanding of Israeli society.

- by Seth Frantzman
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- Israel Studies, Race and Racism, Israel/Palestine, Urban And Regional Planning
- by Moshe Behar
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- Jewish Studies, Hebrew Language, Israel Studies, Nationalism

לינק לפרסום המקורי במוסף "ספרים" של הארץ 30.10.2006
ולינק לפרסום המאמר באתר "העוקץ" עם לינק למאמרו של דודי

- by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
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- Hebrew Literature, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Israel/Palestine
- by Jonatan Meir
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- Religion, New Religious Movements, History, Modern History

For the past twenty-five years, and particularly during the last decade, the idea of the Arab Jew has been debated in multiple forums in different parts of the world. The Arab Jew is represented in literature and film, discussed in blogs and social media, and featured in live performances. It has informed scholarship in literary and cultural studies, sociology, and history, in Israel, the Arab world, Europe, and North America. Yet the term “Arab Jew” remains controversial, especially in Israel, where it is widely viewed as a left-wing political concept. This article surveys the Arab Jew’s full range of expression to date, emphasizing the reciprocal movement of ideas across different geographies and between discursive spheres. It argues that the Arab Jew idea has developed as both a project of political intervention into the present-day separation of Arabness from Jewishness and a project of reconstruction focusing on the Jewish past in the MENA region. Examining recent episodes in the Israeli public sphere, the article investigates how contemporary discussions about Arab Jewish identity and culture utilize competing views of history. It concludes by reconsidering the relevance of the “Arab Jew” to the burgeoning historical scholarship on Jews in the MENA region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

- by Lital Levy
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- Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Hebrew Literature, Arabic Literature
- by Smadar Lavie
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- Discourse Analysis, Religion, Sociology, Social Movements

The Construction and De-construction of the Ashkenazi vs. Sephardic/Mizrahi Dichotomy in Israeli Culture: Rabbi Eliyahou Zini vs. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef Authors(s): Joseph Ringel Source JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.

- by Joseph Ringel
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- Jewish Law, Jewish Studies, Middle East Studies, History of Religion

What is the significance of the designation “Mizrahi” in Israel today? Does it refer to people who share a common geographical and ethnic origin or does it indicate a shared worldview that draws upon Middle Eastern Arabic culture? What are its relations with other terms, such as “Sephardi,” “Oriental,” or “Levantine”? What kind of political membership does it entail? Does it possess a certain cultural, religious, or political vocabulary? And, ultimately, does the diasporic concept of “Mizrahiyut” (mizrahiness) undermine national homogeneity or rather facilitate and enable its enforcement?
One of the immediate regional impacts of the 1948 war in Palestine/Israel was the arrival of 750,000 Middle Eastern and North African Jews in the newly-established State of Israel. “Mizrahim” has now become a common socio-political term describing Israeli Jews whose ancestors lived for many centuries in the territories that in the 20th century became Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Yemen. This course offers a systematic study of the historical developments that shaped pivotal social and political moments, from the Yemenite Children Affair (1950's), the Wadi Salib Riots (1959), the Black Panthers Movement (1971), the establishment of Shas party (1984), the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition (1996), to Tor Ha-Zahav (2016), and others. Students are invited to explore the long debates around the term Mizrahim and the identities and histories it claims to represent, by working closely with scholarly articles and monographs (critical Mizrahi scholarship, as well as studies about Mizrahim), political statements, personal testimonies and memoirs, poetry and fiction, music, theater, and cinema.

- by Yigal S. Nizri
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- Cultural History, Israel Studies, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Mizrahim

The question was simple: should the Hebraist Zionist movement in Ottoman Palestine invest in publishing a newspaper in Arabic and, if yes, should it be communitarian Jewish or general in its topics? What began as yet another obscure intra-Zionist deliberation gradually crystallized into what I argue merits the label of the earliest, explicitly Ashkenazi–Mizrahi ethnic controversy. This is with the smallest risk of the superimposition in hindsight of the terms and signifiers usually associated with Israel’s post-1971/Black-Panthers era onto the Ottoman period. Lasting between 1909 and 1913, the spirited exchange regarding the Arabic newspaper involved two dozen writers, mainly of the Sephardi–Mizrahi Haherut newspaper, and about one third of ethnic Ashkenazim writing elsewhere. It was nonetheless October 1911 that encapsulated the peak of the controversy, mainly due to writing by Mizrahi intellectual and activist Dr Shimon Moyal (1866–1915) and Ashkenazi intellectual and activist Dr Avraham Ludvipol (1865–1921). My decision to let primary texts speak for themselves at greater length than is customary results from my conviction that – in this case – extensive recourse to source material can convey best to twenty-first-century readers why the exchange is effectively “the mother” of all ensuing Mizrahi–Ashkenazi ethnic controversies. While clear definition for what constitutes such a controversy is provided, I close by offering a sample of views about the Arabic newspaper by four prominent Ashkenazi Zionists.

- by Moshe Behar
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- Intellectual History, Ethnohistory, Ethnic Studies, Jewish Studies

המאמר שנכתב ב2013 לקוח מתוך פרק בעבודת הדוקטורט שלי. דרך קריאה בכמה מהסיפורים
המוקדמים של יצחק שמי - בהם "עקרה", "כפר נפש", "בריחה", "אב ובנותיו" ו"נקמת האבות" - אני מנסה לערער על הדומיננטיות של פוליטיקת הזהויות (ובייחוד של פרדיגמת היהודי-ערבי) בקריאת שמי, ולהציע קריאה ששמה במרכז מתחים תיאולוגיים ודחפים מחלנים שאפיינו את כתיבתו ואת הספרות העברית של הזמן.

חנה הלנה טהון הייתה מחלוצות העבודה הסוציאלית בישראל, פעילה ומנהיגה בארגוני נשים, עיתונאית ופובליציסטית אשר פרסמה מאמרים בנושאים שונים מחיי היישוב. פעילותה הביאה אותה במגע הדוק עם יוצאי ארצות האסלאם, אשר היו מיעוט ניכר באוכלוסיית היישוב. היא הרבתה לעסוק במצבם הכלכלי, החברתי והתרבותי. פעילותה בקרב יוצאי ארצות האסלאם הביאה להכרה בה כבעלת ידע ואף בת סמכא בכל הקשור אליהם, וכך זכו דעותיה ועמדותיה לחשיפה ולהשפעה רחבה. טהון השאירה אחריה ארכיון אישי ובו תיעוד נרחב של פועלה. ארכיון זה, וכן הכתבות והמאמרים שפרסמה בעיתונות, מאפשרים ללמוד מקרוב על תפיסתה את יוצאי ארצות האסלאם ואת עמדותיה כלפיהם. מטרתו של מאמר זה היא להציגם כמקרה מבחן לתפיסות
ולדימויים שרווחו בקרב יוצאי אירופה כלפי יוצאי ארצות האסלאם בחברה היישובית בתקופת המנדט. על אף שפועלה החלוצי של טהון בתחום העבודה הסוציאלית ראוי לכל הערכה, כתיבתה משקפת את התפיסות שרווחו בזמנה, שעל פיהן לאירופה נתונה עמדת עליונות מול ה'אוריינט', והיא מבטאת סטריאוטיפים מכלילים ושטחיים. הללו הגיעו לשיאם בכתיבתה בקטגוריזציה דיכוטומית ומפלה שהיא ערכה, המבדילה בין עניים יוצאי אירופה לעניים יוצאי ארצות האסלאם. השסע בין יוצאי אירופה ליוצאי ארצות האסלאם, שהתקיים על רוב מאפייניו כבר בתקופת המנדט, הטיל את צלו על כתיבתה ופעילותה, אך עמדותיה לא זו בלבד ששיקפו את השיח המקובל בזמנה, אלא גם השפיעו על עיצובו.

- by Itamar Radai
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- History, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish History

This article analyzes Jewish and Arab national formations by exploring dynamics surrounding their border-zone community of Arabized-Jews during the ﬁrst half of the 20th century. As the internal composition of the Arab and Zionist-Jewish collectivities was not pre-ordained, their sociopolitical demarcations ﬂuctuated as a consequence of domestic, regional and international developments. The Jewish and Arab national movements sometimes included Arabized-Jews in—and at other times excluded them from—their ranks. From the late 1930s, actions by Zionist and Arab forces vis- a-vis Arabized-Jews converged, producing their dispersal. The events surrounding Arabized-Jews impacted considerably the post-1948 direction that the phenomenon of nationalism in the Middle East has followed and the imbalance of power between Israel and the Arab states.

- by Moshe Behar
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- Diplomatic History, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements
- by Itzhak Benyamini and +1
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- Self and Identity, Social Identity, Israel Studies, Identity (Culture)

This article focuses on the interrelationship between colonial development in Israel and the export of knowledge and practices to Africa. We argue that at the core of the Israeli aid project to Africa is the Cold War and the global technopolitics of this era, that is, the use of technological methods and practices to achieve political ends. The main question to be discussed throughout this article is whether the Zionist settlement enterprise and its ‘export’ to Africa is not only a unique historical event but rather is part of the global imperial debate. We point to the way in which the technopolitics of development in Israel is directly related to the concepts prevalent in the country during the period under discussion in several interrelated ways. First, it was embedded in an Orientalist discourse in which the ‘backward native’ becomes a consumer of modern technologies migrating from a territory where knowledge is produced to the territories that consume its products. Second, the view of Africa was part of a wider epistemological system in which orientalism was also ‘inward’ both toward the Jewish Mizrahi population and to the Palestinian population.

- by Chen Misgav and +2
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- Development Studies, Middle East Studies, International Development, Israel Studies
- by Yali Hashash
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- Critical Theory, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish History

יונתן מאיר, 'האמת הנעדרת: ר' יוסף חיים והקבלה בארץ ישראל', חלמיש למעיינו מים: מחקרים בקבלה, הלכה, מנהג והגות צוגשים לפרופ' משה חלמיש, בעריכת אברהם אלקיים, חביבה פדיה, ירושלים: כרמל, תשע"ו, עמ' 561-542

- by Jonatan Meir
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- Religion, Intellectual History, Cultural Studies, Jewish Law

This chapter examines the historical encounters between Muslims and Jews and provides a thematic overview to the major themes and personalities that shaped the medieval Islamic world. It suggests a balanced way of analysing historical... more

This article examines the relations between the kibbutzim of the Upper Galilee and the Khalsa (Kiryat Shmona) transit camp in its early years. This test case represents a microcosm of the encounter between veteran pioneers and new immigrants, between Ashkenazim and Mizrahim, between those who regarded themselves as the avant-garde of the Labor Zionist movement and new immigrants whose fate symbolized the mass aliyah. The kibbutzim played a decisive role in the establishment of Kiryat Shmona. Their sense of responsibility, compassion, and their genuine desire to help develop social and communal services were no less powerful than their trend towards isolation. However, the kibbutz members’ orientalist views undermined their ability to attain their objectives. Faced with what they perceived as the paternalistic approach of the kibbutzim, the inhabitants of the transit camp, especially the Yemenite immigrants, refused to submit to the powerful pressure exerted upon them to abandon their traditional Jewish culture and manifested their loyalty to their own values.

- by Amir Goldstein
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- Israel Studies, Israel, Israel and Zionism, Mizrahi Jews

This study asks whether we are the same citizens as we were before the civil awakening that spilled over from tyrannical Arab states to core cities of the global economy and beyond. To address this question it offers an historical account of the role of New Social Movements, civil society, and deliberative and radical democracy as the three epistemic frameworks that have shaped the figure of the rights-bearing citizen, and which have conceived the neoliberal citizen as a choice driven individual. Taking the neoliberal shift in Israel of the 1980s as its point of departure, it then places the 2011 Tents’ Protest in the broader context of acts of resistance to the entrenchment of neoliberalism. This is followed by a thorough exploration of two post-2011 Israeli activist groups in Jewish and Arab-Palestinian societies respectively, allowing voices and new conceptions of citizenship that had arisen from the margins of the 2011 protest to come to the fore. In the final analysis, this exploration traces how the shift away from the conception of the citizen as a rights-bearing individual challenges neoliberal governmentality. It thus enables us to configure the image of a post-neoliberal citizen, one whose political subjectivity is grounded not in the discourse of rights, but rather in a new discourse of representation.

- by Gal Levy
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- Israel Studies, Israel/Palestine, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Israel

This paper seeks to examine and deconstruct two groups and the relationships between them: the Israeli national-religious settler movement and the Israeli Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent, or mizraḥim. In academic, journalistic and popular literature, these groups are rarely placed in the same discursive space. Rather, they frequently find themselves implicated at divergent ends of the relationships of power that define the Israeli Jewish polity and socioeconomic structures. How has the image of the settler as white, ashkenazi, middle-class, religiously and ideologically driven been produced? Conversely, how has the critical scholarship on mizraḥim in Israel, which locates mizraḥim both spatially and economically at the periphery of Israeli Jewish society, constructed an imagined mizraḥi subject with no relationship to the image of the settler above? This essay will seek to understand the real overlap between these two contrasting pictures and discuss the participation of mizraḥim in the neo-Zionist project. While these questions demand a much fuller theoretical discussion than this short piece will be able to detail, I seek to propose in this paper a new way of ‘thinking’ mizraḥim and neo-Zionists, and, by extension, mizraḥi participation in and reproduction of ashkenazi hegemony.

- by Zachary Smith
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- Middle East Studies, Israel Studies, Middle East Politics, Israel and Zionism

Cet ouvrage examine les romans écrits en hébreu par les écrivains palestiniens en Israël (1966-2017), avec un aperçu sur leur investissement dans une production culturelle qui inclut non seulement la littérature, mais aussi la traduction, le théâtre et les médias. Cette analyse est posée dans le contexte littéraire et culturel arabe minoritaire auquel appartiennent ces écrivains et le champ culturel hébraïque auquel ils sont supposés appartenir. Ces textes littéraires sont l'expression manifeste, au sein de la littérature hébraïque, d'une virtualité latente : celle d'une langue arabe qui circulerait sous l'effort pour faire exister l'identité palestinienne et son paysage historique marqué par la Nakba dans l'espace linguistique hébréophone.

- by Sadia AGSOUS-BIENSTEIN
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- Israel/Palestine, Colonialism, Palestinian Culture, Nakba
- by Yaron Peleg
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- Israel Studies, Israeli Culture, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Israel and Zionism

יותר מ-100 שנים משוטטים במזרח התיכון הערבי נשים וגברים שאגדירם כ"שמאל מזרחי" בסבך הגמוני שהצמיחו – וממשיכים להצמיח – אשכנזים (ציונים ולא-ציונים) וערבים (פלסטינים ולא-פלסטינים). במהלך התקופה התאמצו בנות/בני הזרם להשחיל תובנה או שתיים לטבורם של דיונים שמאליים דומיננטים, ללא הצלחה יתרה. בתקופה שלאחר 1967 (רק להמחשה) נעשתה הפעולה הזו במטרה לסייע לנסיון ההחלצות הקולקטיבי של כל בני האדם על השטח הקטנטן שבין הנהר לים מצמד סדים: האחד הינו סטרוקטורות של קולוניאליזם אירופוצנטרי אפרטהיידי; השני הינו התגלמויות – רזות יחסית בתיחכומן ועמקותן – של אנטי-קולוניאליזם שערבים (פלסטינים ולא-פלסטינים) הוציאו לפועל לפני ואחרי שנות ה-50. לעת עתה נראה ששורתו התחתונה של המאמץ המזרחי ראויה לקיטלוג 'היסטוריה של הכשלה וכשלון'. נתיב שחרור קולקטיבי חלופי עשוי אולי להפציע אם תימצא דרך למימוש מטריאלי, רחב-יריעה ועמוק של מה שאני מציע להתחיל להמשיג כ'דו-לאומיות פמיניסטית'. סיכויי הצלחתו של פרוייקט שחרור כזה יהיו מעטים אם פמיניסטיות מזרחיות לא תקבענה חלק מאסיבי מהאג'נדה שלו. מותר לבסוף להעיר: בחינה לא-רגשנית של מאזן ההישגים/כשלונות עד הלום מרמזת שתרומתם העתידית של גברים, בכללם מזרחים, לפרויקט כזה תתגלם בעיקר בתזוזה מהסיפון לירכתיים והגירה מסויימת מהציבורי לפרטי על מנת לאיין את האסימטריות המגדרית שטבועה בשניהם.

- by Moshe Behar
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- Israel Studies, Israel/Palestine, Sephardic Studies, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies
- by Moshe Behar
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- Discourse Analysis, Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements

Shawn Eyer revisits a fascinating artifact once tied to Freemason Albert Pike by Smithsonian curators, but now known to have been the work of a Jewish American, Abraham Pike (c. 1843–1897).

- by Shawn Eyer
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- Symbolism, Freemasonry, Mizrahim, Albert Pike

Based on an ethnographic research conducted over three years (2010–2012), this paper suggests new analytical concepts reflecting two types of temporal activism aimed at exercising the ethnic and gendered right to the city: daily activism and anecdotal activism. This analysis is based on a study of the activities of the feminist Mizrahi movement Achoti (Hebrew for my sister). The findings show that there are more than one way and more than one space to fulfill the feminist and Mizrahi right to the city. It also argues that activism as a means to fulfill the right to the city produces a " third space " that is both temporal and temporary, and can be identified in both types of temporal activism.

- by Chen Misgav
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- Social Geography, Urban Geography, Feminism, Feminist Geography
- by Almog Behar
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- Postcolonial Studies, Arabic, Israel/Palestine, Postcolonial Theory

Jews have always been present to participate in the
construction of Middle Eastern society and culture. However for many, their relationship with the Middle East was cut short with the end of World War II and the creation of the state of Israel, which prompted the immigration of almost all Middle Eastern Jews. While many made new lives for themselves in Europe and North America, many more participated in the mass flood of immigration to Israel, where they would experience a re-orientation in the memory of their native countries. This reconstructed memory and identity contrasts the memories exhibited by Middle Eastern Jews that chose to immigrate to Europe and North America. I examine the memories that Middle Eastern and North African Jews in Israel choose to share in their published memoirs and note the contrasts to the memoirs published by Jews that immigrated to France, England, Canada, and the United States.

- by Zoe Thrumston
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- Israel Studies, Israel/Palestine, Sephardi/Mizrahi Studies, Israel