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MODERN MIDDLE EASTERN JEWISH THOUGHT
Moshe Behar (Ed.)
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Description for MODERN MIDDLE EASTERN JEWISH THOUGHT
Paperback. The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought Editor(s): Behar, Moshe; Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FB; 3JJ; HBJF1; HBLW; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
EUROSPAN
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781584658856
SKU
V9781584658856
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About Moshe Behar (Ed.)
Moshe Behar is Pears Senior Lecturer in Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies at University of Manchester, UK Zvi Ben-Dor Benite is professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University, USA.
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