Reading List (3 and final)

Case study session #4: Gender, Palestine/Israel and ‘Arab Jews’
– Margalit Shilo, “’Flora Saporto’ as a Window into Changes in the Lives of Sephardi Women in Palestine at the End of the Ottoman Era”. Journal of Levantine Studies 5,1 (summer 2015), 127-136
– Smadar Lavie, “Writing Against Identity Politics”. American Ethnologist, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 779–803
– Galit Saada-Ophir, “Borderland Pop: Arab Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance”. Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 21, No. 2 (May, 2006), pp. 205-233

Case Study #5: Abraham Serfaty’s concept of the ‘juif arabe’
– Abraham Serfaty, “Moroccan Jewry and Zionism” (excerpt). Souffles 15/Anfas 7-8, 1969-72
– Abdelkebir Khatibi, “A Colonial Labyrinth”. Yale French Studies, No. 83, Post/Colonial Conditions: Exiles, Migrations, and Nomadisms, Volume 2 (1993), 5-11
– Chapter 4 “Portrait of an Arab Jew” and Chapter 5 “Abrahamic Tongues” in Olivia C. Harrison, Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization.
Stanford University Press 2015

Reading list (1)

The readings set for this workshop are listed below and in a second post, in the hope that they will provide a resource for other students and researchers working on related topics.

Historical Background
Gilles Veinstein, “Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire”. In A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora. Princeton University Press, 2014
Henry Laurens, “Judaism and the Religious Denominational Community in the Middle East”. In A History of Jewish-Muslim Relations: From the Origins to the Present Day, edited by Abdelwahab Meddeb & Benjamin Stora. Princeton University Press, 2014
Ella Shohat, “The Invention of the Mizrahim.” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 5-20
Michael Lecker, “The Jewish Reaction to the Islamic Conquests.” In Dynamics of the History of Religions between Europe and Asia, ed. Volkhard Krech and Marion Steinicke. Brill, 2012
Moshe Behar & Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, “The Possibility of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 2014, DOI:10.1080/13530194.2014.878506

Opening discussion session
Emily Benichou Gottreich, “Historicizing the Concept of Arab Jews in the Maghrib”. The Jewish Quarterly Review, Vol. 98, No. 4 (Fall, 2008), pp. 433-451
Moshe Behar, “Mizrahim, Abstracted: Action, Reflection, and the Academization of the Mizrahi Cause”. Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 89-100
Sahar Mandour, “From Diaspora to Nationalism via Colonialism: The Jewish “Memory” Whitened, Israelized, Pinkwashed, and De-Queered”. Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Summer 2015)

Hebrew for Arabic Speakers

Those interested in the workshop Arab Jews: Concepts, Histories, Definitions may also be interested in the University of Edinburgh summer school on Hebrew for Arabic Speakers, which runs from 4th July to 29th July 2016. Deadline for applications is April 4th; more details and information on how to apply can be found via this link.