Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine by Abig

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Oriental Neighbors by Abigail Jacobson, Moshe Naor A fresh look at Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine under the British Mandate FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography 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 the Israeli Home Front. Table of Contents Acknowledgments * Introduction * 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 * Epilogue * Notes * Bibliography * Index Review "Interesting and scholarly. It works on one level as a straightforward history of Oriental Jews in Palestine but is equally a story both of Zionism and of the unfolding Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Mandate Palestine. The detail is fascinating. The authors feel the texture of the Jewish community in Mandate Palestine and in doing so they challenge notions of Jewishness among the Jews who lived alongside Palestinians and who articulated hybrid identities."-- "Middle Eastern Studies""[Oriental Neighbors] contains a wealth of examples of attempts at dialogue between Arabs and Mizrahi Jews - efforts that emphasized their ethnic, linguistic, cultural and geographical closeness, despite tensions between the Zionist and Palestinian movements."-- "Haaretz""[Oriental Neighbors] tackles the issue of coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Mandatory Palestine; more accurately, between Arabs and Sephardic and Oriental Jews. They had a culture, a language and a way of life very close to those of the Arabs, with they lived in close contact. The authors analyze the close relations, coexistence and co-operation between the two communities, without neglecting the points of tension and friction between the two parties."-- "Eunomia""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 purposes, it also afforded them opportunities to collect intelligence and play a strategic role as the drive for Jewish statehood intensified."-- "The Jewish News of Northern California" Review Quote "[Oriental Neighbors] tackles the issue of coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Mandatory Palestine; more accurately, between Arabs and Sephardic and Oriental Jews. They had a culture, a language and a way of life very close to those of the Arabs, with they lived in close contact. The authors analyze the close relations, coexistence and co-operation between the two communities, without neglecting the points of tension and friction between the two parties." Details ISBN1512600067 Author Moshe Naor Short Title ORIENTAL NEIGHBORS Pages 288 Publisher Brandeis University Press Language English ISBN-10 1512600067 ISBN-13 9781512600063 Media Book Format Paperback Birth 1973 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-01-17 Place of Publication Hanover Country of Publication United States Subtitle Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine Imprint Brandeis University Press NZ Release Date 2017-01-17 US Release Date 2017-01-17 UK Release Date 2017-01-17 Series The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies DEWEY 956.9404 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2016-12-05 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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