A bibliography for After Jews and Arabs
By: Ammiel Alcalay
Publisher: Dead letter Office, BABEL Working Group, an imprint of punctum Books
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California], Earth, Milky Way
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781953035356; 9781953035349
Subjects: Sources; Bibliography; Methodology; Jews; Civilization; Arab influences; Jewish-Arab relations; Intellectual life; Sephardim; Mizrahim; Middle Eastern literature; History and criticism; Jewish literature; Israeli literature; Relations judéo-arabes; Bibliographie; Vie intellectuelle; Séfarades; Juifs orientaux; Littérature moyen-orientale; Histoire et critique; Littérature israélienne
Description: "Ammiel Alcalay's groundbreaking work, After Jews and Arabs, published in 1993, redrew the geographic, political, cultural, and emotional map of relations between Jews and Arabs in the Levantine/Mediterranean world over a thousand-year period. Based on over a decade of research and fieldwork in many disciplines--including history and historiography; anthropology, ethnography, and ethnomusicology; political economy and geography; linguistics; philosophy; and the history of science and technology--the book presented a radically different perspective than that presented by received opinion. Given the radical and iconoclastic nature of Alcalay's perspective, After Jews and Arabs met great resistance in attempts to publish it. Though completed and already circulating in 1989, it didn't appear until 1993. In addition, when the book was published, there wasn't enough space to include its original bibliography, a foundational part of the project."

"A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs presents the original bibliography, as completed in 1992, without changes, as a glimpse into the historical record of a unique scholarly, political, poetic, and cultural journey. The bibliography itself had roots in research begun in the late 1970s and demonstrates a very wide arc. In addition to the bibliography, we include three accompanying texts here. In "Behind the Scenes: Before After Jews and Arabs," Alcalay takes us behind the closed doors of the academic process, reprinting the original reader reports and his detailed rebuttals, and in "A Bibliography for After Jews and Arabs: A Brief Introduction," Alcalay contextualizes his own path to the work he undertook, in methodological, historical, and political terms. Also included is "A Poetics of Bibliography""--Publisher's description
Notes: Online resource, viewed April 23, 2021.
Table of contents: title: A bibliography for After Jews and Arabs : a brief introduction --; title: A poetics of bibliography --; title: Behind the scenes : before After Jews and Arabs --; title: Bibliography for Ammiel Alcalay, After Jews & Arabs : remaking Levantine culture (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1993).