Nullified by Holocaust and Nakba? Arabised-Jews, 1937-1956
Published: 8 February 2023
The emergence and early crystallisation of the question of non-white Arab/Mizrahi Jews have taken place during these years and is examined in this paper.
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Abstract:
Disastrous domestic, regional and international developments have taken place between the 1937 publication of the British Royal Peel Commission (to partition mandatory Palestine into two states) and the 1956 Suez war (involving Israel, Britain, France and Egypt). While informed observers commonly know enough about dynamics underlying the Jewish Holocaust and the Palestinian Nakba – they often know little (or nothing) about sociopolitical experiences of nine Jewish minority communities in Arab states surrounding Palestine/Israel. The emergence and early crystallisation of the question of non-white Arab/Mizrahi Jews have taken place during these years and is examined in this paper.
Speaker's Bio:
Moshe Behar holds a PhD in Comparative Politics from Columbia University and is Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester. His work includes the anthology Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics and Culture 1893-1958 (Brandeis, 2013) and numerous articles on a range of topics related to Israel and Palestine, Mizrahi Jews, and the modern Middle East in several languages besides English (Hebrew, Arabic, and Spanish, see here).
First published: 8 February 2023