| Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893-1958 Contributor(s): Behar, Moshe (Editor), Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1584658851 ISBN-13: 9781584658856 Publisher: Brandeis University Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Jewish Studies |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| LCCN: 2012030327 |
| Series: Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6" W x 8.98" (1.04 lbs) 257 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |