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Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
Abigail Jacobson
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Description for Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
Hardback. A fresh look at Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine under the British Mandate Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBP; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University Press of New England
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Hanover, United States
ISBN
9781512600056
SKU
V9781512600056
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About Abigail Jacobson
ABIGAIL JACOBSON is the academic director of the Mediterranean Neighbors program, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. She is the author of From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British Rule. MOSHE NAOR is assistant professor in the department of Israel Studies at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Social Mobilization in the Arab/Israeli War of 1948: On ... Read more
Reviews for Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
Jacobson and Naor assert that what united the Mizrahi Jews during this period was their deep confidence that they could serve as mediators between Jews and Arabs. One of the factors was their fluency in Arabic. . . . The shared language enabled Mizrahi Jews to maintain meaningful relationships with Muslim and Christian Arabs; and, achieving quite different ... Read more