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Oriental Neighbors

Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
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Oriental Neighbors explores the complex relationships between Oriental Jews and their Arab neighbours in Mandatory Palestine. It highlights the hybrid Arab-Jewish identity of Oriental Jews and their pivotal role as mediators in political, social, and cultural contexts. The book places Mandatory Palestine within its broader Semitic-Levantine environment, revealing both cooperation and conflict between Oriental and Sephardi Jews and Arab communities, shedding light on their intertwined histories during the Zionist nation-building process.
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Ideal for readers interested in Middle Eastern history, Jewish studies, and the intricate dynamics of Arab-Jewish relations in the early 20th century.

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A fresh look at Jewish-Arab relations in Palestine under the British Mandate

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Focusing on Oriental Jews and their relations with their Arab neighbours in Mandatory Palestine, this book analyses 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 neighbours.

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.

Series: The Schusterman Series in Israel Studies

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781512600063

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 January 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Brandeis University Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

About the Author

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.

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