writings on identity, politics, and culture, 1893-1958 /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxxix, 257 pages ;
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24 cm.
SERIES
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The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought
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The Tauber Institute series for the Study of European Jewry
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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East and West / Avraham Elmaleh -- Some Teachings of the Koran ; Transvaal's Exemplary Rebels ; The Koran ; Ottoman Imperial Schools ; My Last Dream ; John Bull and the Egyptian Student ; My Poor Eyes ; Letter to Philip Tarrazi / Ya'qub Sannu' -- Address at the American College for Girls in Beirut ; Our Renaissance / Esther Azhari Moyal -- The War for Our Nation / Murād Farag -- Our Status in the Country, or the Question of Learning Arabic / Nissim Ya'acov Malul -- Angels of Peace ; .A Speech in the Celebration of My Jubilee / Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel -- On Solidarity and on Diversity / Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pacha -- European Culture in the East ; On the Question of All Questions Concerning the Settling of the Land / Hayyim Ben-Kiki -- Letter to Chayyim Weizmann / Menahem Salih Daniel -- A Proposal Concerning the Question of Understanding and Reaching an Agreement with the Arabs of the Land of Israel / David Avisar -- A Jew of Palestine before the Royal Commission ; Jews and Arabs / Elie (Eliyahu) Eliachar -- Evidence Given to Palestine's Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Which Visited Baghdad / Ibrahim al-Kabir -- Zionism against Arabs and Jews ; Last Letter / Yusuf Harun Zilkha and Sasson Shalom Dallal -- Anti-Zionism for the Sake of Jews and the Sake of Egypt / Marsil Shirizi -- Egyptian Communists and the Jewish Question ; What Ought to Be the First Official Message from the DMNL to the Israeli Communist Party? ; Some Clarifications on "Social Democracy" / Henri Curiel -- The Newly Arrived Men of Letters / Sami Michael -- Bridge to the Oriental Immigrants / Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff -- A Call for Deepening "The Mizrahi Consciousness" among Us / David Sitton -- From Ingathering to Integration: The Communal Problem in Israel / Avraham Abbas.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the all too often overlooked writings of Jews from the Arab East, from the close of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Whether they identified as Sephardim, Mizrahim, anticolonialists, or Zionists, these thinkers engaged the challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politics situated within overlapping Arabic, Islamic, and colonial contexts. The editors invite the reader to reconsider contemporary evocations of Levantine, Mizrahi, and Arab Jewish identities against the backdrop of writings by earlier Middle Eastern Jewish intellectuals who critically assessed or contested the implications of Western presence and Western Jewish presence in the Middle East; religion and secularization; and the rise of nationalism, communism, and Zionism, as well as the State of Israel. --