Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought
Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958
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Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought
Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958
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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.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyrights
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Editors’ Note
- Introduction: Mizrahi and Modern Middle Eastern Thought, Present and Past Moshe Behar and Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
- Avraham Elmaleh
- Ya‘qub Sannu‘
- Esther Azhari Moyal
- Murad Farag
- Nissim Ya‘acov Malul
- Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel
- Joseph Aslan Cattaui Pacha
- Hayyim Ben-Kiki
- Menahem Salih Daniel
- David Avisar
- Elie (Eliyahu) Eliachar
- Ibrahim al-Kabir
- Yusuf Harun Zilkha and Sasson Shalom Dallal
- Marsil Shirizi
- Henri Curiel
- Sami Michael
- Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff
- David Sitton
- Avraham Abbas
- Publication Credits
- Index