Modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought
Subtitle: writings on identity, politics, and culture 1893-1958
By: edited by Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought; The Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waltham, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781584658849; 9781584658856; 9781611683868
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Jews; Intellectual life; Arabs; Arab Nationalism; Ethnic relations; Jewish nationalism; Zionism; Identity; History
Description: 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. --
Notes: Includes index.