After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture

McMurray, David; Alcalay, Ammiel

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“…But the focus on social closure also highlighted "eastern" and "western" as categories of social and political practice (e.g., Herzog 1985;Shafir 1989;Swirski 1989). Concurrently, a group of sociologists, historians, and literary critics attacked the east/west categories directly by arguing for their inaccuracy (Alcalay 1993;Anidjar 1996;Lavie 1992;Nahon 1987), linking them to exclusion (Bernstein and Swirski 1982;Eyal 1996;Piterberg 1996;Raz Krakotzkin 2002;Shenhav 2002aShenhav , 2002bShohat 1988Shohat , 1989, and suggesting that social scientists were key agents in their dissemination (Anidjar 1996;Eyal 1996;Piterberg 1996;Raz Krakotzkin 1998;Shohat 1988).…”

Section: Of Ethnic Difference In the 1950smentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this sense, it is significant that Jewish distance from Arabs appears to have been at least as important to French Jews as it was to westernizing Middle Eastern Jews. In fact, 19 Scholars such as Shohat (1988), Shiblak (1986), Alcalay (1993), andShenhav (1999) argue that the non-Arab identity was neither popular nor indigenous among Jews in the Arab world. They suggest instead that Ashkenazi Zionists exacerbated and often even created divisions between Middle Eastern Jews and their host societies.…”

Section: Jewish Orientalization Of Arab Non-jewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Among the many issues that future research on Jewish orientalism could address, two are of particular interest. Orientalization was also a method for the exclusion of non-Jewish Arabs (Alcalay 1993;Eyal 1996;Lavie 1992;Shohat 1988), and clearly, elaborating the historical antecedents of that relationship is important. From the perspective of this paper, one dynamic stands out.…”

Section: Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Great Chain of Orientalism: Jewish Identity, Stigma Management, and Ethnic Exclusion in Israel

Khazzoom

2003

Am Sociol Rev

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This paper explores the role that orientalism has played in shaping ethnic inequality among Jews in Israel. Earlier works usually explain ethnic exclusion as a function of Jewish life on Israeli territory. Here, however, exclusion is located within an earlier history of a Jewish encounter with orientalism and Western European colonialism. It is argued that prior to their immigration to Israel, Jews the world-over had been stigmatized as Oriental. Through a complex process, they accepted this stigma, and they arrived in Israel deeply invested in developing the new country as “western “ and uncomfortable with anything identified as “eastern.” It is the imperatives of this westernization “identity project” that account for the initial impetus to exclude Middle Eastern Jews, as well as non-Jewish Arabs, from emerging Israeli society. Viewing history from this perspective, ethnic cleavages in the Jewish world appear to have a historical stability and consistency that is at odds with the current focus on contingency and historical indeterminacy.

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