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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159015303321

Autore

Jacobson Abigail <1973->

Titolo

Oriental Neighbors : Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine / / Abigail Jacobson and Moshe Naor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waltham, Massachusetts : , : Brandeis University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5126-0007-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 269 pages)

Collana

The Schusterman series in Israel studies

Disciplina

305.80095694/09041

Soggetti

Palestinian Arabs - Social conditions - 20th century

Mizrahim - Palestine - Social conditions - 20th century

Jewish-Arab relations

Palestine History 1917-1948

Palestine Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The road not taken: the ethnic problem and the Arab question -- Natives of the Orient: political and social rapprochement -- Cultural politics: journalistic, cultural, and linguistic mediation -- Mixing and unmixing in the Oriental ghettos -- Crossing the lines: the security border between Jews and Arabs.

Sommario/riassunto

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.