Preservation of Jewish Ethnic Identity in Yemen: Segregation and Integration as Boundary Maintenance Mechanisms

Katzir, Yael

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“…Eisenstadt (2007) found that most minority communities have ethnic, religious and political continuity, although the content and importance of these components changes over time. The ethnic-religious component has a double advantage in creating communities of memory (Barth 1969;Eisenstadt 1972;Katzir 1982). Firstly, members of other communities such as local, professional, or sporting communities can also join the community.…”

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In the Realms of Ethnicity, Religion and Emigration: New Communities of Memory in Israel

Feldman

2015

Review of Religious Research

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Ethnic-religious communities of memory have been active in Israel for the past twenty years. These are peripheral communities with their activity concentrated around sacred burial sites. They utilize and fashion their ethnic-religious memories according to their political requirements, so as to create communities. This study will introduce three such communities in Israel and describe the circumstances surrounding their establishment and operating methods. We will discuss communities of Libyan, Moroccan and Tunisian origin.

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In the Realms of Ethnicity, Religion and Emigration: New Communities of Memory in Israel

Feldman

2015

Review of Religious Research

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Yemenite Jewish Women in Israeli Rural Development: Female Power versus Male Authority

Katzir¹

1983

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Intergroup Social Relations and Architecture: Vernacular Architecture and Issues of Status, Power, and Conflict

Mazumdar

1997

Environment and Behavior

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This study examines the relationship between religion, majority-minority intergroup relations, and vernacular domestic architecture. Specifically, it looks at three facets of intergroup relations, power, status, and conflict, and their interrelationships with architecture. Through an ethnographic study focusing on the Zoroastrians, a religious minority in predominantly Muslim Iran, and their domestic architecture, we indicate how the design of the home and of the neighborhood expresses religion-related hegemonic social relations, power differentials, status distinctions, and conflict. We show that architectural features such as location, designs of houses, heights, and presence or absence of special devices, such as badgirs and "sacrificial spaces," play a part in the enaction of power, status, and conflict while forming a record of them. Architectural features can aid in the survival and preservation of a group's cultural identity, and be symbolic of resistance. We indicate how for the Zoroastrians, architecture became a means of resistance-a survival strategy-and how the home design began to incorporate fortress-like qualities to protect and preserve their unique religious identity and cultural traditions. We recommend the adoption of a socioarchitectural approach that involves simultaneous examination of both the social world and the material world, as examination of either produces an incomplete and partial picture.

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Preservation of Jewish Ethnic Identity in Yemen: Segregation and Integration as Boundary Maintenance Mechanisms

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

In the Realms of Ethnicity, Religion and Emigration: New Communities of Memory in Israel

In the Realms of Ethnicity, Religion and Emigration: New Communities of Memory in Israel

Yemenite Jewish Women in Israeli Rural Development: Female Power versus Male Authority

Intergroup Social Relations and Architecture: Vernacular Architecture and Issues of Status, Power, and Conflict

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