Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893?1958

Name: Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893?1958
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ISBN: 9781584658856

ISBN-10: 1584658851

ISBN-13: 9781584658856

Edition: 2013

Authors: Moshe Behar, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

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This volume opens the canon of modern Jewish thought to the vibrant and compelling--yet 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 fundamental challenges and transformations of Middle Eastern Jewry in this decisive period. In an illuminating and provocative introduction, Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite present Jewish culture and politics situated within overlapping Arabic, Islamic, and colonial contexts. They invite the reader to reconsider contemporary invocations of Levantine, Mizrahi, and…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.81" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.



Foreword


Acknowledgments


Editors' Note


Introduction: Mizrahi and Modern Middle Eastern Thought, Present and Past



Avraham Elmaleh



East and West


Ya'qub Sannu'



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


Esther Azhari Moyal



Address at the American College for Girls in Beirut



Our Renaissance


Murad Farag



The War for Our Nation


Nissim Ya'acov Malul



Our Status in the Country, or the Question of Learning Arabic


Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel



Angels of Peace



A Speech in the Celebration of My Jubilee


Joseph Asian Cattaui Pacha



On Solidarity and on Diversity


Hayyim Ben-Kiki



European Culture in the East



On the Question of All Questions Concerning the Settling of the Land


Menahem Salih Daniel



Letter to Chayyim Weizmann


David Avisar



A Proposal Concerning the Question of Understanding and Reaching an Agreement with the Arabs of the Land of Israel


Elie (Eliyahu) Eliachar



A Jew of Palestine before the Royal Commission



Jews and Arabs


Ibrahim al-Kabir



Evidence Given to Palestine's Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Which Visited Baghdad


Yusuf Harun Zilkha and Sasson Shalom Dallal



Zionism against Arabs and Jews



Last Letter


Marsil Shirizi



Anti-Zionism for the Sake of Jews and the Sake of Egypt


Henri Curiel



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"


Sami Michael



The Newly Arrived Men of Letters


Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff



Bridge to the Oriental Immigrants


David Sitton



A Call for Deepening "The Mizrahi Consciousness" among Us


Avraham Abbas



From Ingathering to Integration: The Communal Problem in Israel


Publication Credits


Index